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The week in 10 pics

From Boehner's sequester face to Jennifer Lawrence's charming klutziness, a look at the week's enduring images SLIDE SHOW

By Jacob Sugarman

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John Boehner makes his patented sequester face while meeting with reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. It's been a long week for the speaker of the House, who looks increasingly helpless to save the Republican Party from itself.
Credit: AP/J. Scott Applewhite
On the last day of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI delivers his final farewell to a cheering crowd.
Credit: AP/L'Osservatore Romano
After being put through the wringer by the GOP, former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. arrives at the Pentagon to be sworn in as secretary of defense on Wednesday.
Credit: AP/Cliff Owen
Quvenzhané Wallis, looking prim at the 85th Annual Academy Awards. The 9-year-old actress unwittingly inspired a media firestorm after the Onion made an off-color joke at her expense on Twitter.
Whistle-blower Bradley Manning carried himself with grace and dignity Thursday, pleading guilty to leaking state secrets among other charges. Manning read from a 35-page statement explaining his decision to share the classified information with WikiLeaks.
Jennifer Lawrence trips over her gown while accepting an Oscar for her role in "Silver Linings Playbook," inadvertently becoming America's new sweetheart.
Proof she's arrived: Jack Nicholson hits on Lawrence at a post-show wrap-up for the 85th Academy Awards. "I'll be waiting," he joked (we hope).
Jeremy Bush lost his brother, Jeffrey, after the latter's house inexplicably fell through a 20-foot-deep by 20-foot-wide sinkhole in Tampa, Fla., Thursday. "I couldn't get him out," Jeremy told NBC. "All I thought I could hear was him screaming for me and hollering for me, but I couldn't do nothing."
Michelle Obama made a surprise appearance at the 85th Academy Awards Sunday, helping a Falstaffian Jack Nicholson present the Oscar for best picture.
As many as 10,000 took to the streets of Albany Thursday to protest New York's new gun control laws, yielding these tasteful placards.
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This photo. President Barack Obama has a laugh during the unveiling of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Tx., Thursday. Former first lady Barbara Bush, who candidly admitted this week we've had enough Bushes in the White House, is unamused.
Reuters/Jason Reed
Rescue workers converge Wednesday in Savar, Bangladesh, where the collapse of a garment building killed more than 300. Factory owners had ignored police orders to vacate the work site the day before.
AP/A.M. Ahad
Police gather Wednesday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to honor campus officer Sean Collier, who was allegedly killed in a shootout with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects last week.
AP/Elise Amendola
Police tape closes the site of a car bomb that targeted the French embassy in Libya Tuesday. The explosion wounded two French guards and caused extensive damage to Tripoli's upscale al-Andalus neighborhood.
AP/Abdul Majeed Forjani
Protestors rage outside the residence of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday following the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi. The girl was allegedly kidnapped and tortured before being abandoned in a locked room for two days.
AP/Manish Swarup
Clarksville, Mo., residents sit in a life boat Monday after a Mississippi River flooding, the 13th worst on record.
AP/Jeff Roberson
Workers pause Wednesday for a memorial service at the site of the West, Tx., fertilizer plant explosion, which killed 14 people and left a crater more than 90 feet wide.
AP/The San Antonio Express-News, Tom Reel
Aerial footage of the devastation following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in China's Sichuan province last Saturday. At least 180 people were killed and as many as 11,000 injured in the quake.
AP/Liu Yinghua
On Wednesday, Hazmat-suited federal authorities search a martial arts studio in Tupelo, Miss., once operated by Everett Dutschke, the newest lead in the increasingly twisty ricin case. Last week, President Barack Obama, Sen. Roger Wicker, R.-Miss., and a Mississippi judge were each sent letters laced with the deadly poison.
AP/Rogelio V. Solis
The lighting of Freedom Hall at the George W. Bush Presidential Center Thursday is celebrated with (what else but) red, white and blue fireworks.
AP/David J. Phillip
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