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Jeremiah Muwanga, a music junior who works with the Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center, poses for a portrait that accompanied a story about a forum scheduled to discuss the use and abuse of the n-word in today’s society.

A member of the Committee of 100, a group that manages seating at University of Kentucky basketball events, sits in the stands during the funeral service for Bill Keightley on April 3, 2007 in Rupp Arena. Keightley had been the basketball team’s equipment manager for the last 48 years, outlasting six coaches and thousands of players.

The University of Kentucky football team gathers in the tunnel underneath Commonwealth Stadium before the start of its first game of the 2007 season.

University of Kentucky junior guard Ramel Bradley beats Auburn junior forward Quan Prowell to the basket during a January 10, 2007 game at Rupp Arena. Bradley finished with 18 points and 11 rebounds, his first career double-double.

Evarts, Ky. assistant police chief Mike Lunsford picks up syringes from the street of what he described as a neighborhood plagued by drugs. The boy, who was not identified by police, reported them.

A surfer watches from the shore as his friends run into the water at Channel Islands Beach in Port Hueneme, Ca. on June 24, 2007.

Freshman walk-on linebacker Brian Murphy, left, freshman offensive lineman Stuart Hines, center, and redshirt freshman offensive lineman Marcus Davis practice three times a week as members of UK football’s scout team. The three spend two hours prior to practice lifting weights and occasionally visiting the training room to treat nagging injuries suffered during the rigors of practice.

Lexington firefighters battle a blaze in an abandoned furniture factory at the corner of South Broadway and De Roode streets on Oct. 14, 2007. Firefighters initially reported that there was no one inside, but upon further investigation after the fire was extinguished one man was found dead inside.

With fans screaming and flames jumping high into the air, University of Kentucky men’s basketball senior guard Ramel Bradley runs onto the court for Big Blue Madness, the team’s first official practice for the 2007-2008 season.

A member of the University of Kentucky Army ROTC retrieves a gun from the bottom of the Lancaster Aquatic Center pool on Friday, Sept. 15. The ROTC was training in their “unexpected water entry” drill, where cadets were blindfolded and pushed off the Aquatic Center high dive.

Warren F. Toler Jr. (left), Chris Mack, and Trey Toler watch as one of their employees fills in a grave on Thursday, September 21, 2006. The woman being buried was a resident of Irvine who, due to an unfortunate car accident that took the life of her husband, was forced to move to a nursing home in Ohio. upon her death, she was brought back to Irvine to be buried next to her husband in a small family graveyard.

Visitors to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. examine the undercarriage of the presidential airplane, Air Force One, on June 27, 2007.