Word: 10th
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Nearly two weeks of silence on the streets of Tehran were broken in the evening of July 9 when thousands marched through the central districts of the Iranian capital to protest the June 12 presidential election. Another anniversary helped precipitate the show of apparent defiance: the 10th anniversary of a bloody student uprising that was brutally put down by the government. Despite threats earlier in the day of a "crushing" response, men, women and even some children went onto the streets with chants of "Death to the dictator" and "Mousavi, Mousavi...
...beginning - or near the beginning - was King Solomon. Israel's third King, he reigned in the 10th century B.C.E. (before the common era). In addition to being famously wise, he was flagrantly polytheistic. The Bible handles this awkward fact by blaming it on his many wives of foreign extraction, who "turned away his heart after other gods...
...whom doctors delivered five weeks early to spare him an additional round of chemotherapy, is now in fifth grade and is "just a regular boy" who plays football and in-line hockey and has a yen for adventure novels, says his mom, who just celebrated her 10th year cancer-free...
...investigate the Omagh atrocity. Other killings carried out during Northern Ireland's 25-year sectarian conflict have been the subjects of similar investigations, and not without controversy. The Saville Inquiry into the 1972 shooting of 27 civil-rights marchers in Derry by British army soldiers is already in its 10th year and, despite having cost an estimated $320 million so far, has yet to deliver its final report. The result is that the Northern Irish public has little appetite for further in-depth inquiries into Northern Ireland's bloodiest episodes - Omagh included...
...weekend, a movie usually needs a star name or an action-film punch, or it needs to be a sequel to or the remake of a blockbuster. Except, that is, for new Pixar releases. Rising on the propulsion of a brand name known for quality entertainment, the studio's 10th animated feature, Up, surpassed most predictions by earning $68.2 million this weekend, according to official projections. Buoyed by higher ticket prices in theaters showing the 3-D version and rhapsodic reviews that tallied a 98% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Up scored the strongest Pixar opening since The Incredibles...