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Michael Morton poses March 29, 2012, for a photo in Austin, Texas. Morton is one of more than 2,000 people falsely convicted of a serious crime who have been exonerated in the United States in the past 23 years, according to a new national registry, or database, assembled by the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. (Associated Press)
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South Korean astronomy students use telescopes and special sunglasses to observe an annular solar eclipse in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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South Korean astronomy students use telescopes to observe an annular solar eclipse in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Italian policemen, background left, walk on the site where an explosive device went off outside "Francesca Morvillo Falcone" high school in Brindisi, Italy, Saturday, May 19, 2012. Several students were wounded. (AP Photo/Max Frigione)
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David Caruth, director of institutional research at the University of the District of Columbia, has written a book about overcoming poverty, dyslexia and the damage from a lightning strike that stole his ability to walk, read and write. "It doesn't matter how big the challenges are, there are ways to work through them," he says. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. (The Washington Times) **FILE**
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Jamion Christian will attempt to shake up a Mount St. Mary's program that went 8-11 last season. (Mount St. Mary's University)
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Washington, D.C. residents come out to vote in a special election to replace Harry Thomas for Ward 5 city councilmember at a University of the District of Columbia Community College building, formerly Backus Middle School on South Dakota Avenue in northeast, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 15, 2012 (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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A D.C. resident who declined to give his name walks into a University of the District of Columbia Community College building, to cast a vote in a special election in this May 15, 2012 file photol. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times) **FILE**
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Delano Hunter, second from left, a candidate running in a special election to replace Harry Thomas for Ward 5 city councilmember, discusses local issues with Bertha Paige, second from right, and her grandson Aaron Paige, 19, right, as they head to the polls at a University of the District of Columbia Community College building, formerly Backus Middle School, on South Dakota Avenue in Northeast, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 15, 2012 (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Candidate Delano Hunter, left, watches as candidate Frank Wilds, right, hugs D.C. resident Jean Johnson, outside a University of the District of Columbia Community College building, formerly Backus Middle School, on South Dakota Avenue in Northeast, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 15, 2012. Hunter and Wilds are two of the candidates running to replace Harry Thomas for Ward 5 city councilmember in a special election. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Delano Hunter, right, a candidate running in a special election to replace Harry Thomas for Ward 5 city councilmember, discusses local issues with Bertha Paige, left, and her grandson Aaron Paige, 19, center, as they head to the polls at a University of the District of Columbia Community College building, formerly Backus Middle School, on South Dakota Avenue in Northeast, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 15, 2012 (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
