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Hundreds of people crowd "What Stage" at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. The festival is held every June in Manchester, Tenn.

Evan Baxter (played by Steve Carell) realizes that God (played by Morgan Freeman) is in the back seat of his Hummer.

Craig Ferguson, Scottish comedian and Emmy-nominated host of CBS's "The Late Late Show," hosts CBS's national broadcast of Boston's 2007 Independence Day celebrations at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade.

Fireworks produced by Pyro Spectaculars glimmer over the Boston Skyline during Independence Day 2007 celebrations.

This year was the first year that the Independence Day concert and fireworks show were broadcast nationally in High Defintion.

A Massachusetts State Police boat patrols the waters of the Charles River in front of MIT, safeguarding the barge housing thousands of explosive charges for Boston's 2007 Independence Day Fireworks Spectacular.

MIT hackers changed the color of the lights on the dome to red, white, and blue for Independence Day.

Hackers added extra fish to those hanging above the first-floor Student Street in the Stata Center in late June. All of the fish were removed shortly thereafter.

John "Cougar" Mellencamp performs "Our Country," the first single off his new album Freedom's Road, in front thousands at the Hatch Shell for Boston's 2007 Independence Day celebrations.

A fireworks display that included more than 20 thousand pounds of explosives and 10-inch diameter shells capped off Boston's 2007 Independence Day celebrations.

Pyro Spectaculars, the company that produced the fireworks display for Boston's celebration, used new "HD Fireworks" in this year's show. The new fireworks are designed to detonate at lower altitudes with richer color...

The Blue Man Group plays a PVC pipe instrument, accompanied by the Boston Pops, during Boston's 2007 Independence Day celebrations at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade.

The Boston Pops perform behind the singers of the Boston Children's Chorus at Boston's 2007 Independence Day celebrations held at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade.

Fireworks light up the shore at Swampscott, Mass. on the night of July 3.

Jordan Moore of the Onion River Sports cycling team rounds the final turn of the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic road race at the top of Mount Wachusett. The Classic, in its 48th running this year, challenged hundreds of ri...

Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, wearing a policeman's raincoat due to the inclement weather, directs the 1812 Overture during Boston's 2007 Independence Day celebrations at the Hatch Shell. See more photos on pa...

Zuzana Trnovcova '09 competes in the women's categories 3/4 road race of the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic this past Saturday, June 30. Trnovcova finished the road race in 44th position and continued on to complete the Cl...

Eric M. Edlund G sprints to the finish line at the conclusion of the Fitchburg Longsjo Classic road race last Saturday, June 30. Edlund placed 24th in the men's category 3 road race, and finished the Classic, a multi-...