Word: april
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...always believed I was short but my statue looks all right. But what I liked the most are my eyes." - At the unveiling of his wax likeness at Madame Tussauds in London. He is 5 ft. 8 in. tall (BBC, April...
Like many of her peers, New Yorker Trina Thompson has struggled to land a job since graduating from Monroe College in April with a degree in IT. But instead of blaming the recession, she is suing her alma mater to recoup $70,000 in tuition fees, accusing the school's career-advancement office of failing to, well, advance her career. Monroe's defense? It's impossible for any college to guarantee employment--"especially in this economy...
...shot of Merkel in a glamorous - and revealing - evening dress was taken during a visit to the Oslo opera in April 2008. Back then, the sight of the Chancellor's décolletage raised some eyebrows and triggered a heated debate in the German media over her "demonstratively feminine" physique. Now that photo, side by side with one of Lengsfeld looking equally feminine, is generating both glee and outrage across Germany. (Read about Merkel in the 2009 TIME...
...years, Madhu, some 185 miles (300 km) from the capital of Colombo, remained well within the battlegrounds of the civil war between the predominantly Sinhalese government and the separatist Tamil Tigers. It was not until April 2008 that the military gained full control of the shrine; the Tigers, who demanded a separate state for ethnic Tamils on the island nation, were finally crushed in May 2009. (See pictures from inside Sri Lanka's rebel-held territory...
...that year, 10,000 people were still taking refuge in the church compound, believing the Virgin would protect them. But by February 2008, recalls the Rev. S. Emilianuspillai, then caretaker of the shrine, it was clear that the shrine itself was in danger - and part of the war. On April 3, 2008, fighting had isolated 17 people at the shrine, including four priests and three nuns. Emilianuspillai tells TIME that the Tigers, breaking an agreement not to enter the compound, had moved mortar launchers into church property and started firing. Says Emilianuspillai: "I went into the shrine and hid there...