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...Second Chechen War, Russian troops hoping to flush out a group of retreating Chechen rebel fighters began pounding the village of Katyr-Yurt with 550-lb. (250 kg) and 1,100-lb. (500 kg) unguided bombs. No prior warning was given to the village's sleeping residents. "The main Chkalov St. was totally destroyed," reported the independent Novaya Gazeta from the scene. "Not a single house remains standing." The destruction of Katyr-Yurt, 25 miles (40 km) from the Chechen capital of Grozny, continued even as villagers tried to flee through a corridor they had been told was safe. Accounts...
...things will improve, and the way we have the portfolio positioned—the set of strategies, the mix of investments—we know that we’ll benefit from that improvement.”LURED TO FINANCESeated in her office beside HMC’s expansive main trading floor, Mendillo says that her current post represents “the pinnacle of the career path” that she has pursued for the past 25 years. But her early interests were not always tied to the esoteric world of university investment management that she has come...
...Even Jaeger admits that the gross ramifications of the financial decline have alerted the union to the absence of University leadership when it comes to thinking beyond calculations and figures. “The main thing [central administrators] really do is set that number,” Jaeger says. “We wish they were doing more than that to really lead or to advise the schools and departments as to how to cope...
...Over the course of last semester, the Houses have felt the impact of budget trimming in five main areas: the Senior Common Room, House libraries, shuttle services, hot breakfast, and House staff...
...always start on the streets. The uprising threatening to unseat British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and oust up to a third of the nation's MPs was sparked in the offices of the Daily Telegraph and its sister title, the Sunday Telegraph, by a team sequestered from the main editorial operations. The air is frankly a bit smelly in their windowless bunker, but that's nothing compared to the stench that has hung over Westminster since the Telegraph began publishing leaked details of MPs' expenses claims 27 days...