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Michael Stark (L) and his same-sex partner Michael Lechner show off their wedding rings after the couple were legally married during a civil ceremony in Toronto, June 10, 2003. The city of Toronto started issuing marriage licenses to gay couples on Tuesday after an Ontario provincial court issued a landmark ruling setting aside the heterosexual definition of marriage. Passions flared among often staid members of Canada's Parliament on Thursday over whether the federal government should appeal an Ontario court decision permitting same-sex marriages. Photo by Andrew Wallace
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Norma McCorvey, the woman once known as 'Jane Roe' and whose case led to the legalization of abortion in the United States 30 years ago, filed a new court challenge June 17, 2003 in a bid to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision. McCorvey, who went by the name Jane Roe in the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling but later joined the anti-abortion movement, is pictured at a pro-life convention in Chicago in this January 17, 1998 file photo. (Sue Ogrocki/Reuters)
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Volunteer Scott Stoermer (L) shows expert archaeologist Mandy Ransow artifacts excavated from George Washington's whiskey distillery at Mount Vernon plantation in northern Virginia, June 12, 2003. George Washington made whiskey here. As America's first president and one of its canniest early entrepreneurs, Washington liked a sip of cinnamon whiskey -- and he distilled his own. More than that, he started a thriving business selling a raw, clear liquor made from rye and corn. REUTERS
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Iranian students throw stones at hardliners as they run away outside the campus of Tehran University during an overnight anti-government demonstration. Many were apparently responding to calls by US-based opposition satellite television channels to join the protest by a few hundred students.(AFP/File)
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A young Liberian government soldier poses near the frontline in Klay, 35km from Monrovia, June 17, 2003. Liberia's government and rebels signed a ceasefire on Tuesday to stop West Africa's bloodiest conflict and agreed that President Charles Taylor would eventually step down for a new administration. REUTERS/Luc Gnago
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Chinese workers from a telecoms company learn to march in step as part of training to improve the camaraderie between them in Beijing, China, Wednesday, June 18, 2003. Workers in many Chinese companies often live together in dormitories provided by their work unit, allowing their superiors to impose military style training on them. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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United States Army soldiers point rifles at Iraqi army soldiers, protesting against a lack of pay by the interim administration, during a violent demonstration in the capital Baghdad June 18, 2003. U.S. troops guarding Baghdad's main base in the presidential palace area shot and killed two protesters and wounded another two, witnesses said. Photo by Faleh Kheiber/Reuters
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A woman sets herself on fire outside an office of the French Interior Ministry during a protest in Paris on June 18, 2003 against a mass round-up of left-wing Iranian exiles the previous day. Marzieh Babakhani was badly burned and rushed to a hospital after dashing out from a crowd of over 100 protesters and setting light to herself, according to an official of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) which opposes the Islamic government in Tehran. (Philippe Wojazer/Reuters)