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...week Monica ruled the waves. It was radio Monica every day and TV-talk-show Monica every night. Monica made every morning's paper and the cover of the weekly magazines. Like an endless D-day announcement, she rippled across the other famous zipper, in Times Square. But if you craved Monica maximus, there was only one place for you. On the Web it was all Monica all the time...
...those living within Massachusetts's two new local calling areas, with 781 and 978 area codes, yesterday should have been D-day--the day that calls made to their old 617 and 508 numbers would no longer go through as usual...
...stone marking the plot of a Colonel Buchwald. It is large but not enormous, and Buchwald probably served his country well. The site would blend unnoticed if his neighbor to the left, lying under a small government-issue marker, wasn't Norman Cota, the general who on D-day rallied the scattered American invasion force on Omaha Beach and pushed it past the German defenses; Robert Mitchum played him in The Longest Day. A hundred yards away, under a similarly modest headstone, rests Alonzo H. Cushing, who commanded the federal battery at Gettysburg that stood at the very point Pickett...
...DOING D-DAY...
...Fujimori went it alone. He first set Feb. 15 as D-day for the assault, the military official told TIME. But the February attack was called off because the guerrillas and hostages were shifting positions inside the building and intelligence could not pinpoint them. He then chose a date in early March, which was put on hold after Cerpa either heard the noise of the tunnel construction--the army tried to mask it with martial music on blaring loudspeakers--or was tipped off about the digging. Cerpa halted talks with the government's mediators and moved the hostages upstairs...