MELODY KO PHOTOGRAPHY

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About 200 Dawoodi Bohra members crowded into a hangar at Lawrence Municipal Airport to receive blessings from their spiritual leader, Dr. Burhanuddin. About one million Shi’ite Muslims belong to the sect, which is based in India and Egypt.
   
Jazelle Martinez, 16, of Lawrence, Mass., dodges a maze ball, or “ball and chain.” Martinez is aspiring to compete in the Golden Gloves tournament this season.
     
  
Popcorn Sutton has spent his life making moonshine somewhere in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.
   
  
John McCain greets supporters after a town meeting as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination.
     
  
   
Mary and Joseph El-Kareh celebrate 60 years of hair styling at their Vogue 2 Salon.
  
Students anxiously gather around the final band audition results for the 2002 national Youth Jazz Festival.
     
  
Marilyn Loehnig, 59, watches her husband, Terry, drive off for another grueling day on the farm. Terry’s grandfather bought the 1859 farmhouse in 1904.
   
Sophia Esmail, 15, right, of Andover, prays at the newly built mosque in Billerica in observance of Ramadan, a month-long Muslim holiday.
   
Tatiana Kondryuk irons her daughter Olga's wedding dress on her wedding day in Asheville, North Carolina. Olga, whos last name is now Lebed, is the first of 103 cousins from Moldova to be wed in the United States.