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Students at the Cinderella Ball let loose on the dance floor with friends and family at The Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, June 5, 2011. This was the sixth annual Cinderella Ball, where students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities came together to celebrate. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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Students dance with Grammy-award winning music duo Mary Mary at the Cinderella Ball at The Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, June 5, 2011. This was the sixth annual Cinderella Ball, where students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities came together to celebrate. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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Students at the Cinderella Ball try on comical sunglasses and hats before entering a photo booth at The Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, June 5, 2011. This was the sixth annual Cinderella Ball, where students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities came together to celebrate. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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A student shares a laugh with her mother and a staff member at the Cinderella Ball at The Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, June 5, 2011. This was the sixth annual Cinderella Ball, where students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities came together to celebrate. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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Lindsey Brandt, left, sits with her friend Ryan O'Meara at the 6th annual Cinderella Ball, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 5, 2011. The ball, put on by The House, Inc., is for local students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities. The House, Inc. is a leadership resource for area students that offers before and after school programs and weekend activities. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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A.J. Boersma, a student at Beville Middle School in Woodbridge, Va., smiles after getting his corsage at the 6th annual Cinderella Ball, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 5, 2011. The ball, put on by The House, Inc., is for local students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities. The House, Inc. is a leadership resource for area students that offers before and after school programs and weekend activities. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Walking arm and arm, Ryan O'Meara and Lindsey Brandt, right, walk down the stairs to the ballroom at the 6th annual Cinderella Ball, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 5, 2011. The ball, put on by The House, Inc., is for local students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities. The House, Inc. is a leadership resource for area students that offers before and after school programs and weekend activities. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Rachel Haber, left, 8th grader at H.H. Poole in Stafford, Va., smiles after getting her photo taken with Cinderella (Jenny Smolinksi) at the 6th annual Cinderella Ball, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 5, 2011. The ball, put on by The House, Inc., is for local students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities. The House, Inc. is a leadership resource for area students that offers before and after school programs and weekend activities. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Halena Rouzer, student at North Stafford High School, gets her corsage at the 6th annual Cinderella Ball, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 5, 2011. The ball, put on by The House, Inc., is for local students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities. The House, Inc. is a leadership resource for area students that offers before and after school programs and weekend activities. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Halena Rouzer, left, student at North Stafford High School, gets her corsage with her mother Marlene Rouzer, right, at the 6th annual Cinderella Ball, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 5, 2011. The ball, put on by The House, Inc., is for local students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities. The House, Inc. is a leadership resource for area students that offers before and after school programs and weekend activities. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Kristin Bellows, a student at Stonewall Jackson High School, is escorted by a Marine to the 6th annual Cinderella Ball, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 5, 2011. The ball, put on by The House, Inc., is for local students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities. The House, Inc. is a leadership resource for area students that offers before and after school programs and weekend activities. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Nikki Reese, right, a senior at Woodbridge High School, is escorted by Marine Sgt. Jacob DeMille to the 6th annual Cinderella Ball, at the Willard InterContinental Hotel, in Washington, D.C., Sunday, June 5, 2011. The ball, put on by The House, Inc., is for local students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities. The House, Inc. is a leadership resource for area students that offers before and after school programs and weekend activities. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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U.S. Marines dance with students at the Cinderella Ball at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel in Washington on Sunday. Students with life-threatening illnesses or disabilities came together to celebrate the sixth annual dance. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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Jack Kevorkian is seen here in February 1991 showing off his homemade suicide machine, with which he assisted in the suicides of about 130 people. "Doctor Death," as he came to be known, died Friday at age 83 at a Detroit-area hospital. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this Dec. 3, 1990, file photo, Dr. Jack Kevorkian sits in his lawyer's office in Southfield, Mich., after Oakland County Prosecutor Richard Thompson announced that he would be charged with murder in the death of a woman who committed suicide by using a device of the doctor's. (AP Photo, File)
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Nicholas Read poses for a photo at the University at Buffalo South Campus where he once taught as a graduate assistant in Buffalo, N.Y., Thursday, May 19, 2011. Most Americans say they don't believe Medicare has to be cut to balance the federal budget, and ditto for Social Security. "I’m pretty confident Medicare will be there, because there would be a rebellion among voters," said Read. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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Nikki Araguz, the transgendered "widow" of Wharton, Texas, Volunteer Fire Department Capt. Thomas Araguz III, who was killed in the line of duty in 2010, said she was "completely devastated" by a judge's ruling she is not entitled to surviving-spouse benefits because their marriage was not legal. (Associated Press)
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A mass rape victim comforts her son in the town of Fizi, Congo. She was among nearly 50 women who were raped during a campaign by Congolese soldiers on the night of Jan. 1.A mass rape victim comforts her son in the town of Fizi, Congo. She was among nearly 50 women who were raped during a campaign by Congolese soldiers on the night of Jan. 1.AUBREY GRAHAM/SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Mama Lubero is one of the many women raped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She sits through an interview about her ordeal at HEAL Africa, an aid organization in Goma trying to help some of the thousands of victims every year.
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Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell shakes hands with Delegate Vivian E. Watts, Annandale Democrat, after signing sex trafficking legislation into law on Tuesday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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A member of the Serb Gendarmerie guards the entrance of the Special Court in Belgrade, Serbia, on May 31, 2011. As he awaited extradition to a U.N. tribunal, jailed war crimes suspect Ratko Mladic was allowed to visit the grave of his daughter, who committed suicide during Bosnia's war. (Associated Press)
