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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

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The week in 10 pics

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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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Jacob Sugarman is Salon's cover editor and the editor of Open Salon. You can follow him on twitter @jakesugarman. More Jacob Sugarman.

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  • A missing poster hangs on a tree outside the Cleveland home of Amanda Berry Wednesday. Berry and two other women, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus, made a daring escape this week after being held captive for more than a decade.
    Credit: AP/Tony Dejak

  • Elvis Rafael Rodriguez and Emir Yasser Yeje offer their best impression of  Eric B. & Rakim. On Thursday, New York prosecutors identified the pair as members of an international gang that robbed $45 million in a matter of hours by hacking into a database of prepaid debit cards and draining ATM machines around the world.
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  • New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie walks to a podium during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Technology Enhanced Accelerated Learning Center at Essex County Newark Tech in Newark, N.J., Tuesday. Christie made less flattering headlines this week after undergoing a secret stomach surgery to curb his weight.
    Credit: AP/Julio Cortez

  • Workers stand outside the Tung Hai Sweater Ltd. factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday after a fire broke out in its 11-story building. Eight people were killed in the blaze.
    Credit: AP/Ismail Ferdous

  • Workers rescue a woman trapped for 17 days in the rubble of a garment factory building in Saver, Bangladesh, Friday. The building's collapse was the worst industrial disaster in the country's history, killing more than 1,000 people.
    Credit: AP

  • Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford gives his victory speech Tuesday in Mt. Pleasant, S.C., after winning back his old congressional seat in the state's first district.
    Credit: AP/Rainier Ehrhardt

  • Jodi Arias reacts in Maricopa Country Superior Court Wednesday after being found guilty of first-degree murder in the gruesome killing of her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander. Arias has subsequently said she wants the death penalty, claiming she'd "prefer to die sooner than later."
    Credit: AP/The Arizona Republic/Rob Schumacher

  • Ariel Castro stands for his mug shot Thursday at the Cuyahoga County Corrections Center, where he is being held on $8 million bail. The former bus driver is accused of imprisoning three young women and beating them repeatedly over a period of 10 years.
    Credit: AP/Cuyahoga County

  • Charles Ramsey addresses the media Monday after helping rescue three women held captive in Cleveland for more than a decade. Ramsey's hero portraiture has been complicated by revelations of his own domestic violence record.
    Credit: AP/The Plain Dealer/Scott Shaw

  • Michael B. Donley, Secretary of the Air Force, testifies during a Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday. The military branch was rocked this week after its chief sexual assault prevention officer was charged with sexual battery.
    Credit: AP/Carolyn Kaster

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