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...referendum—to be held from noon on Tuesday, April 17, to noon on Thursday, April 19—calls for a fall semester that will start earlier than the one currently in place and end prior to the winter holiday, allowing students to stay on break until late January...
...White House inadvertently crashed the computers of Senate Judiciary Committee staffers Thursday night with another massive dump of e-mails about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year. In all some 2,400 pages of new documents were made available five days before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee to give make-or-break testimony in the scandal. With their computers back up and running, Capitol Hill staffers are digging through the pile, looking for new avenues of investigation...
...Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, suffered a bomb attack. An official at the Ministry of the Interior told TIME that the bomber was wearing a suicide vest and was likely a guard for one of the members of parliament. The blast went off just after 2 p.m. on Thursday at the cafe in the central atrium of the building just outside the main hall where politicians, staff and journalists often meet for a cup of tea or a plate of food from a buffet spread. The casualty estimates fluctuated all day. On Friday, the U.S. military said that...
...down those fleeing the initial blast, said the Interior Ministry official. One was in a briefcase inside the building, he said, and another in the parking lot outside. One of the detection machines leading into the Baghdad Convention Center, where Parliament is housed, was not operating Thursday, said the official, who was suspicious of a wider plot. U.S. forces have sealed off the building and are conducting an investigation into the blast. Two weeks ago, Coalition forces found two suicide vests inside the Green Zone and there was speculation about the presence of a third in the area...
...nearly a dozen shows last year would close, despite events already booked for the rest of this year. “There are people that are going to be disappointed that there will be no more shows because that was sort of a fun thing to do on Thursday nights, and I think that people will miss that,” said Siena T. Koncsol ’08, a Cage liaison. One of those people is Alex M. Doubet ’10, president of the Harvard College Alliance for Rock and Roll, which had scheduled a round...