Word: april
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...police officers perpetrated a series of attacks in Isabela City, located on one of the nation's southern islands. The attackers, who are seeking an independent Muslim state, detonated bombs and opened fire in what one official called "a Mumbai-style attack." Fourteen died in the assault. On April 14 a gun battle erupted between government troops and 60 rebels as police searched for those responsible for the strike...
Suffering a decline in popularity largely because of the global financial crisis and Hungary's high levels of unemployment, Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai's Socialist Party suffered a major setback in the country's first round of parliamentary elections on April 11. Although the final allotment of seats won't be determined until after a second round of polling on April 25, the center-right Fidesz party looks to have won 206 spots in the 386-member parliament, while the extremist, far-right Jobbik party, a nationalist group that some accuse of anti-Semitism, won an estimated 26 seats...
Malcolm McLaren, who died April 8 at 64, will be remembered as a master manipulator who inflicted punk on the world when he detonated the explosion that was the Sex Pistols--the most famous punk-rock group ever...
...strong Cherokee woman with a heart for her home and her people, Wilma Mankiller, who died April 6 at 64, shrugged off the perceived novelty of her gender when she became the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation...
...Harvard Business School students piled into rental cars to be whisked from the Allston campus across the river to Business School Professor Howard H. Stevenson’s Cambridge home for dinner one mid-April night...