Word: monday
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...overnight rebel withdrawal that began Monday, however, appears to have been anything but the carefully planned and executed tactical retreat the guerrillas may have envisaged: Chechen sources admitted Tuesday that dozens of fighters and commanders were killed or wounded when a large contingent of rebels found themselves trapped on a minefield and were then cut to pieces by Russian artillery. A number of top Chechen leaders were reportedly killed in the fierce fighting to break through the Russian lines, and the rebels' top commander, Shamil Basayev, was reported to have been badly wounded when his car detonated a mine. Both...
Last month Carolina Panthers receiver Rae Carruth became the first active National Football League player to be arrested for murder. Already there's a second. Ray Lewis, a $7 million-a-year linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens, had plane tickets to fly Monday from Atlanta to Honolulu to participate in this Sunday's Pro Bowl. Instead of boarding a jet, he was arrested and held without bail for the stabbing death of two men outside an Atlanta nightclub Sunday...
Like its Middle Eastern equivalent, Northern Ireland's peace process is perennially in crisis. But Monday's secret report by the Canadian overseer of the arms-decommissioning process could be a decisive setback. General John De Chastelain is widely expected to find little progress toward IRA disarmament in his report to the governments of Britain and the Republic of Ireland, and that has the Protestant Ulster Unionist Party - the largest party in the territory's historic joint administration - once again threatening to walk out, a move that would collapse the Northern Ireland Assembly and restore direct rule from London. "Disarmament...
...World Economic Forum in Switzerland Monday morning, Bill Gates and Steve Case, America's two most powerful technocrats, had the ears of the world's economic policy makers. While Case took the time - again - to sing the praises of his merger with Time Warner (parent company of Time Daily) and the synergies it will allow, Gates touted the virtues of the one-product company. Pressed on rumors of a Microsoft merger with media content firms such as Viacom, Gates said Microsoft will stick to software design. Industry analysts see the announcement as a preemptive strike against Microsoft's possible breakup...
...Associate Dean Joseph J. McCarthy said each degree program would work out individual arrangements with students who had term-end projects due earlier this week. Affected students could reschedule a Monday in-class microeconomics exam, but McCarthy said he had not heard of other problems...