| Revisiting
old wounds (岁月流逝,伤口弥合?)
An Indian woman touches a coffin
carrying the remains of relative Feb. 1 in the Guatemalan town of
Xolcuay. Excavators(开凿者)who
pulled 35 bodies from shallow graves this week believe the bodies
constitute nearly all of Xolcuay's inhabitants. They say army soldiers
killed the villagers in February 1982 at the height of Guatemala's
36-year civil war. |
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| Innocents
in Ireland (爱尔兰的天真)
Catholic schoolchildren play near
graffiti supporting the Irish Republican Army's refusal to disarm Feb.
4 in Twinbrook, a Republican neighborhood of Belfast in Northern
Ireland. The British government said Northern Ireland's
Protestant-Catholic administration would be suspended if the IRA
didn’t quickly promise to disarm. |
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| Tornado
tragedy (龙卷风之灾)
Bill Hancock receives a hug from his
cousin Sara Scoggins in front of the debris left by a Feb. 14 tornado
in Albany, Ga., that killed Hancock抯 father,
John E. Hancock. |
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| Sweethearts
(世纪风雨,濡沫白头)
Willie Ferguson, 104, gives 89-year-old
Mattie Walls a rose and a kiss for Valentine抯 Day
at a party in Natchez, Miss. |
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| Mourning
in Chechnya (车臣的葬礼)
A Chechen woman stands near the body of
one of her two sisters killed during the Russian attack on Grozny on
Feb. 12. |
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| Suicide
threat (自杀威胁)
A Turkish military officer holds a
pistol to his head in an aborted suicide attempt after climbing onto a
monument in Istanbul's central Taksim Square on Feb. 14. He was
eventually detained by security forces without firing a shot and taken
to hospital for a psychological assessment. |
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| Fishing
for votes (不莱德利的额选票)
On the campaign trail in Seattle,
Democratic presidential contender Bill Bradley clowns with employees
at the Pike Place Fish Co. on Feb. 11.
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| Emotional
testimony (我们没有故意杀他)
New York City police officer Sean
Carroll, a defendant in the shooting of Amadou Diallo(纽约警察枪杀黑人案),
becomes emotional during Feb. 14 testimony in Albany County Court,
N.Y.
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| A
change in Iran? (伊朗变了?)
An Iranian man uses a telephone in
Tehran Motahari
seminary on Feb. 17 as the nation‘'s voters
go to the polls. A nearby poster features the Ayatollah Khomeini,
whose 21-year-old Islamic revolution is under fire by reformists who
hope to gain power in parliament when the votes are counted. |
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| In
the storm’s wake (
A Mozambican man helps his wife cross
the flooded highway to Xhai Xhai from Maputo on Feb. 22 in the
aftermath of Cyclone Eline, a storm strong enough to overturn the bus
in the background. |
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| Taking
a punch (重奖之下,铁拳无情)
Namibia’s Henry Simon hits
Argentina's Enrique Areco on Feb. 19 during a WBO Middleweight World
title fight in Dagenham, England. |
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