Word: aug
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...Aug. 14, France will be watching as the Picat children see off their mother and bury her - according to her wishes - holding her family's beloved SpongeBob SquarePants stuffed...
...single fan showed up Aug. 7 for the opening match of Iran's avidly followed football season. After the government caught wind of plans by protesters to bring the street demonstrations into the 100,000-seat national stadium, authorities decided to have the two rival teams from Tehran and Isfahan play to an empty house rather than risk yet another embarrassing show of green and chants of "Death to the dictators...
...people would have pegged Marie-Laure Picat as a likely heroine. The portly, plain-looking 37-year-old lived quietly in a village in central France, shunned attention, and said her only real quirk was an adoration of the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants. But on Aug. 10, when it was revealed that Picat had died the previous day, most of France spared a thought - and shed a tear - for the mother who spent what she knew would be the last year of her life fighting to guarantee that her four children would remain together once she had gone...
...After Astonishing France, Marie-Laure Dies of Cancer," read the headline of daily Le Parisien's story on Picat's Aug. 9 passing. "The Death of Mother Courage," echoed France Soir. "Marie-Laure Picat: The End of a Battle," observed the website agoravox.fr. (See pictures of cancer survivors' inspirational stories...
...sneak in parting shots. And the shots have been explosively loud. Early Monday morning, simultaneous truck bombs killed more than 30 people, injured more than 130 and demolished dozens of homes in a village near Mosul where the residents belong to the Shabak religious minority; 44 were killed on Aug. 7 in a suicide truck bombing outside a Shi'ite Turkoman village in the same area. The attacks are in Kurdish-controlled areas of Mosul and appear to be aimed at straining the already tenuous peace between Kurdish and Arab Iraqis (the Shabak, for example, have a strong affinity...