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Photos of the Week (03/28/10)

Posted by Kevin Fischer on March 28, 2010

Photos of the Week

In this handout provided by the White House, U.S. President Barack Obama (C), Vice President Joe Biden (R), and senior staff applaud in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, as the U.S. House of Representatives passed the health care reform legislation March 21, 2010 in Washington, DC. The proposed legislation has become the signature piece of Obama's domestic policy agenda and has eluded U.S. presidents dating back to Theodore Roosevelt. (Photo by Pete Souza/White House via Getty Images)








House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. signs the Senate Health Reform bill, Monday, March 22, 2010, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Looking on, from left are, House Majority Whip James Clyburn of S.C., House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., Rep, George Miller, D-Calif., Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)






Dr. Chris Hughes from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania participates in a rally with health professionals who support health care reform, on March 22, 2010 in Washington, DC. Sunday night  the House of Representatives passed the health care bill that divided Congress with a vote of 219 to 212. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)






Annamaria Evans stands with a group of activists, legislators and community leaders outside Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., Monday, March 22, 2010. They launched a petition drive Monday to put a measure on the Michigan ballot asking voters whether they want to exempt the state from the federal health care overhaul. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)






Demonstrator Cathy Trauernicht of Potomac, Maryland, holds a sign that reads "Term Limits For Congress" during a protest in front of the House side of the US Capitol on March 21, 2010 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)






Demonstrator Vera Sutter of Los Angeles, California, shouts "No" while protesting in front of the House side of the US Capitol on March 21, 2010 in Washington, DC. The House voted Sunday night on Health Care Legislation that has divided both sides of Congress. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)






A Capitol Hill police officer stands between protesters for and against the health care reform bill as the House prepared to vote on the bill in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Sunday, March 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)






House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., holds a large gavel as she walks through the Cannon Rotunda after a Democratic Caucus, along with from left, are Reps. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., John Lewis, D-Ga., and John Larson, D-Conn., on Sunday, March 21, 2010 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)






President Barack Obama signs the health care bill, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)


 

U.S. President Barack Obama (C) signs the Affordable Health Care for America Act during a ceremony with fellow Democrats in the East Room of the White House March 23, 2010 in Washington, DC. The historic bill was passed by the House of Representatives Sunday after a 14-month-long political battle that left the legislation without a single Republican vote. Pictured is also Rep. Sandy Levin (D-MI), U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), Rep. George Miller (D-CA), House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), House Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), Marcelas Owens, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), Sen. Ted Kennedy's widow Victoria Kennedy, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)






Broken windows are seen at the Albemarle County, Va., GOP Headquarters Friday March 26, 2010 in Charlottesville, Va. The headquarters were vandalized sometime overnight when bricks were thrown through several windows. (AP Photo/The Daily Progress / Brian McNeill)






Seven-year-old Luis Leon from Chicago holds a flag as he and other protestors participate in a "March For America" demonstration calling for immigration reform near the Washington Monument March 21, 2010 in Washington, DC. According to the organizers of the 'March for America' hundreds of groups from almost every state are taking part to march for immigration reform from the National Mall to RFK Stadium. (Photo by Astrid Riecken/Getty Images)






Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (L) speaks to the crowd during a campaign rally for Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) at Pima County Fairgrounds on March 26, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona. Palin traveled to Arizona to stump for McCain, who is facing a primary challenge in his bid for a fifth term in the Senate. The event marked the first time the pair had campaigned together since their failed 2008 presidential run. (Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images)






U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) (2nd-L), wife Cindy (R), former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and husband Todd Palin greet the crowd during a campaign rally for Sen. McCain at Pima County Fairgrounds on March 26, 2010 in Tucson, Arizona. McCain and Palin are reuniting for the first time since their 2008 presidential bid concluded to campaign for his fifth term in the U.S. Senate. (Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images)






Tea Party supporters await the start of a Tea Party rally in Searchlight, Nevada, on March 27, 2010. Thousands of Tea Party activists are expected at the rally which will kick off their latest cross-country protest against big government and health care reform. Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be the headline speaker at the rally in the hometown of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images






Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at the Tea Party Express' "Showdown in Searchlight," rally March 27, 2010 in Searchlight, Nevada. The rally, held in the hometown of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), serves as the kickoff for a 42-city bus tour that ends in Washington D.C. on April 15, 2010. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)






People hold a banner as they stand near the site of the "Showdown in Searchlight" tea party rally in Searchlight, Nev., Saturday, March 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)






In this March 19, 2010 photo, an ironworkers walks a steel beam at One World Trade Center in New York. When finished the tower will rise to a height of 1776 feet (541 meters). (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)






In this March 2, 2010 photo, a U.S. Marine, right, provides blocking cover during a firefight, as two fellow Marines rush with a wounded comrade across a field to a waiting U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus medevac helicopter, in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)






Britain's Prince Charles, right, leaves a machine gun emplacement at Patrol Base Pimon, Afghanistan, Thursday March 25, 2010, while visiting the Scots Guards, during a surprise visit to British troops in Afghanistan.(AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, pool)






U.S. Army Chaplain CPT. Loren Aderhold prays over a wounded American soldier at the military hospital on March 22, 2010 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. The 82nd Airborne soldier was injured when his vehicle was severely damaged in an IED blast in Kandahar province. U.S. military chaplains travel the battlefield across Afghanistan counseling, comforting and ministering to troops dealing with the difficulties of war and far from their families. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. (PATIENT GAVE CONSENT FOR PHOTO)






Jake Locke runs up to see his father Thomas, a pilot for the VFA-14 Top Hatters, who returned from duty Thursday, March 25, 2010 in Lemoore, Calif. Lemoore Naval Air Station strike fighter squadrons, VFA-41's Black Aces, VFA-14's Top Hatters and VFA-97's Warhawks returned home in their F/A-18 aircraft after an eight month deployment aboard the USS Nimitz. Locke was seeing his child and grandchild for the first time after being born while he was on deployment. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)






A man sleeps in front of a painting of the Last Supper in Port-au-Prince, Monday, March 22, 2010. Former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are on a one-day visit to Haiti to assess recovery needs, after being tapped by President Barack Obama to spearhead U.S. fundraising in response to the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake.(AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)






Pope Benedict XVI waves from his popemobile during a youth gathering in St. Peter's square, at the Vatican, Thursday, March 25, 2010. The Vatican on Thursday strongly defended its decision not to defrock an American priest accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin and denounced what it called a campaign to smear Pope Benedict XVI and his aides. Church and Vatican documents showed that in the mid-1990s, two Wisconsin bishops urged the Vatican office led by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now the pope, to let them hold a church trial against the Rev. Lawrence Murphy. The bishops admitted the trial was coming years after the alleged abuse, but argued that the deaf community in Milwaukee was demanding justice from the church. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)






Arthur Budzinski, center, with his daughter Gigi, right, speaks to reporters Thursday, March 26, 2010, outside the headquarters of the Milwaukee Archdiocese in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Budzinski, who is deaf, was a victim of alleged abuse at the hands of Father Lawrence Murphy at St John's School of the Deaf. His daughter was interpreting for him. (Mike DeSisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MCT)






In this 1954 family photo, Arthur Budzinski, fourth from left, poses with his class at St. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wis. Budzinski, now 61, was one of about 200 deaf boys at the St. John's School for the Deaf just outside Milwaukee who say they were molested by Rev. Lawrence Murphy decades ago in a case now creating a scandal for the Vatican and threatening to ensnare Pope Benedict XVI. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Gigi Budzinski)






In this photo taken on Tuesday, March 23, 2010, a villager carries water from the bottom of a dried reservoir in Shilin county, in the drought-hit southwest China's Yunnan province. Emergency wells were being drilled and cloud-seeding operations carried out in southern China, where the worst drought in decades has left millions of people without water and caused more than 1,000 schools to close, officials said Thursday. (AP Photo)






Shakeel dives into a polluted section of the River Yamuna to scavenge for ornaments and coins left by Hindu rituals at the river bank, in New Delhi, India, Monday, March 22, 2010. Officials say factories are ignoring regulations and dumping untreated sewage and industrial pollution, turning toxic the river that gives the capital much of its drinking water. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)






Students from Washington's Oyster-Adams Bilingual School gather on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, during a rally in observance of the World Water Day. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)






French sex workers take part of a march in Paris, Wednesday, March 24, 2010, protesting a lawmaker's proposal to legalize brothels in France which they say means they would be working for a "company". They want the repeal of a 2003 law penalizing solicitation, which they say prevents them from working independently in the open. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)






A few days-old lamb stays under the watchful eye of its mother while playing this week with other lambs in the animal farm area at Chanticleer Guest House, a bed and breakfast in Sturgeon Bay. Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood.






Hares fight on a field near Frankfurt, central Germany, on a warm and sunny Thursday, March 25, 2010. Sinking temperatures and rain are forecasted for the next days all over Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)






A newborn zebra named Dragana stands by its mother at Belgrade Zoo, Serbia, Tuesday, March 23, 2010. Dragana, a female, was born on Monday. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)






Spring is around the corner, and so is the season of baby birds. Here, young Sandhill Cranes, just three days old, grab a morsel of food from a parent in the area of Creekwood Boulevard, just north of State Road 70 in East Manatee County, Florida. The Sandhill family has attracted several wildlife photographers that have been watching the nest for several days. (Grant Jefferies/Bradenton Herald/MCT)






In this photo taken Friday, March 19, 2010, Baboon's fall out of a tree as they play at a dam next to the Constantia Uitsig wine estate situated on the outskirts o Cape Town, South Africa. Baboons are already accused of car-jacking Cape Town tourists in search of food. Winemakers say the rampaging troops of primates are also munching their fill of premium grapes in the region's famous Winelands area. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)






In this March 17, 2010 photo, Kalluk, one of the polar bears at the San Diego Zoo, plays in the Polar Bear Plunge being renovated and scheduled to re-open at noon on Friday March 26. The shrinking Arctic ice cap has prompted the San Diego Zoo to renovate its popular polar bear exhibit with global warming messages. The zoo spent $1 million to add more backyard space and displays supporting cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions. (AP Photo/San Diego Union-Tribune, Howard Lipin)






Ukraine's Vladislav Goncharov places his head into the mouth of one his lions during the rehearsal of the upcoming show of the Hungarian State Circus in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, March 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)






A diver cleans the glass of a giant, cylindrical aquarium as fish swim by at the AquaDom on March 22, 2010 in Berlin, Germany. The 25 meters tall aquarium, which contains approximately 1,500 fish from 50 different species, stands in the lobby of the SAS Radission Hotel and is part of the SeaLife Berlin underwater attraction. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)







Baltimore Orioles left fielder Luke Scott shields himself from a flock of seagulls during the fourth inning of a spring training baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies in Clearwater, Fla., Sunday, March 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)






Amanda Braun, left, and Maria Linn kiss the WIAA trophy after Pius' victory over De Pere Saturday at the Kohl Center. Pius won the Division 1 title, 34-23. Journal Sentinel photo: Benny Sieu


 

Filipino boxing great Manny Pacquiao, a candidate for Congressman at the seven-township Sarangani province, greets a supporter as his campaign motorcade makes the rounds of townships on the second day of the official campaign period Saturday March 27, 2010 in Malungon township, Sarangani province in southern Philippines. Pacquiao, who made boxing history by winning seven championships in seven weight divisions and recently won a unanimous WBO Welterweight crown versus Joshua Clottey of Ghana, is now concentrating on another fight in the political arena as a candidate for congressman in Sarangani province in southern Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)





Kamal Orlando Ibrahim of Ireland (C) is announced as the Mr World 2010 while other awardees second runner-up Josef Karas of Czech Republic (L) and third runner-up Kenneth Okolie (R) of Nigeria during final of Mr World Korea 2010 at Songdo Convensia on March 27, 2010 in Incheon, South Korea. The competition aims to find the world's most desirable man. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)






A man works on a billboard advertising a liposuction procedure Tuesday March 22, 2010, near Interstate 4 in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, Jacob Langston)




 

A model is helped on to a podium during a Guinness Record attempt for a bridal outfit decorated with 43,008 Swarowski pearls and crystals in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. The outfit, weighting more than 12 kilograms (26.5 pounds), entered the Guinness Book of World Records following examination by an official. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)






An offical handles shoes during a Guinness Record attempt for a bridal outfit decorated with 43.008 Swarowski pearls and crystals in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, March 24, 2010. The outfit, weighting more than 12 kilograms, entered the Guinness Book of World Records following examination by an official. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)