Word: monday
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...many consumers, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the weeks that follow will be a good time to sit on their hands...
...Harvard College Vegetarian Society’s Thanksgiving fell on a Monday this year, as the group hosted a Thanksgiving potluck dinner last night at the Lowell House Grille...
Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Washington Monday to represent an India emerging as a cosmopolitan economic powerhouse, his Parliament sent an ugly reminder that the world's largest democracy has a dark side: both chambers of India's Parliament have had to be adjourned repeatedly over the past two days amid a furor over leaked findings of a judicial inquiry into the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya...
...failures of the Iraq war remain a stain on the nation, a full accounting can wait as long as needed. The liberal Guardian newspaper said the inquiry has the potential to "heal the wounds of war." "The primary aim of the probe," the paper's editorial page declared Monday, "must be to promote the reconciliation of the public with a political class which misled it so badly." Until then, the debate will undoubtedly continue...
...Monday's protest represents a different thread of environmental demonstration, in which well-organized, middle class residents gather to oppose a threat to their common interests, says Shanghai-based environmental attorney Charles McElwee. It follows similar efforts by citizens to block a chemical plant in the coastal city of Xiamen in 2007 and a demonstration against a proposed petrochemical facility near Chengdu in 2008. "They are generally directed more toward proposed projects that they think may have an impact to health or property values," he says. "These are classic 'not in my backyard' protests that you see happen in developed...