Soldiers' Mass
An army chaplain from Versailles, Ohio, Father Carl Subler offers spiritual guidance and religious services to U.S. soldiers stationed in Afghanistan.
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Full Speed Ahead
A year and a half after his dramatic fall from power, Eliot Spitzer has slowly, tentatively returned to the public arena. He is a favorite guest on cable news shows and recently appeared on The Colbert Report.
The Terminator, 1984
In the course of his celebrated career, director James Cameron has continuously pushed the limits of special-effects technology with a long succession of cutting-edge films. His directorial visions have often outpaced the technology readily available during the production of his movies, forcing him to either create the needed technology from scratch or wait until tech breakthroughs could catch up with his ideas. A low-budget film, produced for roughly $6.5 million, that went on to become both a box-office and critical hit, The Terminator was the film that kick-started Cameron's legacy.
Antigua, Guatemala
Once the capital of Guatemala, Antigua was moved twice before it was abandoned and the capital set elsewhere. After Mayan conflicts with the Spanish led it to move from what is now Iximche to the Alotenango Valley, a volcano eruption in 1541 forced the city to relocate once again, this time to its current location in the Panchoy Valley. A series of earthquakes in the 18th century led the Spanish crown to decree that the the capital be moved to present-day Guatemala City.
Night Work
Rescue workers search for survivors in a destroyed building in Concepción.
Alone
Tens of thousands of children lost a parent in the earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12. Among them: Dieu Fatane, age 6, above, photographed in her aunt's house in Port au Prince. An army of aid workers is working to help find a permanent home for her.
Classroom
Originally from Bissingen an der Teck, a town in southwestern Germany, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their five children immigrated to the U.S. in 2008 because homeschooling in Germany is illegal. Evangelical Christians, the Romeikes wanted to decide for themselves how and what their children would learn.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese
Following Scorsese's epochal films with Robert De Niro (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Casino, etc.), you might not have predicted that the director would spend an entire decade of filmmaking, from Gangs of New York in 2002 to the new Shutter Island, with a very different actor of German-Italian heritage. De Niro was a star in the Method mold: simmering, then exploding, and all to spectacular effect. DiCaprio has a subtler gift: he's implosive instead of explosive, and tops at allowing the viewer to discover, as if in confidence, the emotions that roil his characters' souls.
Twice he's played the endangered hero -- in Gangs of New York, in which Daniel Day-Lewis got the strutting, twisted De Niro role, and as the undercover cop in The Departed -- and twice a more complex creature, as Howard Hughes in The Aviator and a U.S. marshal unearthing awful truths in Shutter Island. The new best friends will reconvene soon, when Leo plays the title role in Sinatra, a movie about the singer's relationship with the Mob.
Happier Times
First came love, then came marriage, then came the baby in the baby carriage. And then, for Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods, things got complicated. After news broke in November of Woods' infidelity, hardly a day passed without gossip about the couple. With Woods now out of rehab and ready to begin scrubbing his tarnished name, many wonder what's next for Elin.
His Holiness Goes to Washington
The Dalai Lama arrived in the U.S. capital, where he will begin a trip through the country, on Feb. 17.
Dissenter
Lisa Wheeler, an accountant and small business owner from Seminole, Florida, attends a Tea Party protest against the current administration in Tampa, Florida, as President Obama addresses a nearby crowd. Wheeler said she became part of the Tea Party movement "to represent conservative Christian values." Wheeler added, "not everyone that disagrees is a nut or a radical, just a red blooded American."
Ethan A., Age 9
Atlanta, GA
Tragedy
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recently released thousands of photos, some never-before-seen, of the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001.
Louisa Adams, 1825-1829
The wife of sixth president John Quincy Adams was one of the first First Ladies to take up the cause of women's rights. Although she remained reserved on policy issues during her time in the White House (as did many early first ladies), she later helped funnel petitions on the issue to her husband during his lengthy, post-Presidential career in Congress.
World, Meet the iPad
After two years of secrecy and fervent speculation worldwide, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPad, his company's new touchscreen tablet, on Jan. 27, 2010.
Keeping Current
President Obama reads the paper in the presidential state car on his way back to the White House after a discussion with Arne Duncan and a class of sixth-graders at Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Va.
Obama's Oval Office
Every President brings his own unique touch to the Oval Office, changing statues and paintings as he sees fit. Only one item, the desk, has remained fairly constant. With the exception of Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford and the senior Bush, every President since Rutherford B. Hayes has used the Resolute desk, made from the timbers of the H.M.S. Resolute.
U.S. Monetary Policy and the Man
In the last year and a half, as the U.S. struggled through its worst financial crisis in over 70 years, the Federal Reserve, under the leadership of Ben Bernanke, conjured up trillions of new dollars and blasted them into the economy. The Fed engineered massive public rescues of failing private companies and ratcheted down interest rates to zero. It jump-started stalled credit markets in everything from car loans to corporate bonds and provided loans to mutual funds, hedge funds, foreign banks, investment banks, manufacturers, insurers and other borrowers who had never dreamed of Fed cash. The moves generally transformed the staid arena of central banking into a stage for desperate improvisation. Bernanke not only reshaped U.S. monetary policy; he led an effort to save the world.
Accepting the Award
President Barack Obama delivers his speech upon accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. Obama robustly defended the use of military force "on humanitarian grounds" and to preserve peace.
The Tree Arrives
The 2009 White House Christmas tree is an 18.5-ft. Douglas fir. It was grown in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
Big Moment
The President chose Eisenhower Hall at the military academy at West Point as the venue to make his case to increase troop strength in Afghanistan.
Center Stage
Chelsea Clinton has grown up in the spotlight and the shadow of her "political rock-star" parents. She was a mere 12 years old when her father claimed his party's nomination at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, above.
Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2010
Buds
Translation devices sit on seats reserved for members of the U.S. and Haiti delegations prior to a joint statement by President Obama and Haitian President Rene Garcia Preval at the White House.
The Brave Day Sinks
President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Osan Air Base in Seoul en route back to Washington, DC, after an eight-day four-nation journey to Asia.
The Alleged Gunman
Identified as Major Nidal Malik Hasan, he allegedly opened fire Thursday, Nov. 5, at a military processing center at Fort Hood, Texas, killing 13 and wounding 30 others.
