Word: accidental
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In another sense, the merger is quite disappointing. According to the Office to the Assistant to the President, women still make up only about 12 percent of tenured faculty within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. You could count the number of full female minority professors on one hand, even...
DIED. IBRAHIM BARE MAINASSARA, 49, President of Niger; in a spray of gunfire, reportedly from his bodyguards, at the Diori-Hamani airport; in Niamey. The shooting came at the end of a frenzied week in which Mainassara's opposition accused him of fixing an election. Niger's Prime Minister said...
Pentagon officials, some of whom still suspect that Serb forces killed the civilians, now say that the pilot was describing another military convoy he had struck. "It wasn't handled well," a senior administration aide said of NATO's response to the tragedy. NATO knew there would be civilian casualties...
"Things like that characterized the day," co-captain Heather Hanson said. "We weren't focused on the whole team effort because of the accident, and some people were kind of shook up. The focus of the day became for us to try to get as good an effort as we...
In the meantime, our bombs have already killed a number of Serbian civilians. Just last week a NATO bomb fell short of its target, destroying two residential areas. Though NATO officials have labeled it an "accident of war," the fact remains that at least seven people were reported killed and...