The week in 10 pics

From March Madness to Michele Bachmann's craziness, a look at the images that defined the week SLIDE SHOW

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  • The spectacularly dorky Harvard University band celebrates its school's upset win over third-seeded New Mexico in the NCAA tournament Thursday.
    Credit: AP/George Frey

  • Michele Bachmann tries (and fails) to out-power walk CNN's Diana Bash Tuesday after the congressional correspondent asks her to clarify her accusations that the president is costing taxpayers $1.4 billion a year in personal perks. Bill O'Reilly of all people came to Obama's defense, calling Bachmann's attacks "trivial."

  • Barack Obama listens to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Vad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem Friday. Israeli officials were kvelling after the president made his first trip to the Holy Land this week as commander-in-chief.
    Credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais

  • Computer researchers investigate the shutdown hardwares of the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) at Seoul's National Police Agency. South Korea was the victim of a nationwide cyber attack that may be linked to Chinese hackers.
    Credit: AP/Lee Jin-man

  • Among a cadre of Newtown shooting victims at New York's City Hall Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden and Mayor Michael Bloomberg make an impassioned plea for an assault weapons ban -- one that appears to have fallen on deaf ears.
    Credit: AP/Richard Drew

  • LiLo doing LiLo things: The troubled actress pleads no contest Monday to reckless driving, lying to police and obstruction following a car accident in June. Lohan will avoid jail time, instead serving 90 days in a rehab facility.
    Credit: AP/Reed Saxon

  • A flag flys at half mast in Marine, Ill., in remembrance of Aaron Ripperda, one of seven marines who perished in an explosion at a Nevada military base Monday.
    Credit: AP/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Robert Cohen

  • Ma'lik Richmond, right, reacts after receiving a guilty verdict from Judge Thomas Lipps in Steubenville, Ohio, Sunday. Richmond and Trent Mays (white shirt, back to camera), will each serve time in a juvenile facility for raping a 16-year-old girl, and both will be registered as juvenile sex offenders. Credit: Reuters/Keith Srakocic

  • Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford casts his vote Tuesday in the GOP primary to fill the state's vacant 1st Congressional District seat. Sanford would ultimately win the run-off, setting up a showdown with Democratic primary winner Elizabeth Busch Colbert -- an election that should be hotly contested if her brother, Stephen Colbert, has anything to say about it. (Spoiler: He already does).
    Credit: AP/Bruce Smith

  • Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus addresses the GOP's 2012 election defeat on CBS's "Face the Nation" Sunday, attributing it to a "lousy job of branding." Republicans performed what may have been the first "autopsy" on a live patient this week, laying out a bold new plan for their flagging party to reach Hispanic, black and Asian voters.
    Credit: AP/CBS News/Chris Usher

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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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