Word: thursdaye
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...until last Thursday I was still the normal mundane me. Shawshank Redemption, Say Anything and Trainspotting still held their places in my movie drawer as my most favorite of flicks. The Neverending Story was there too--after all, there's nothing like Atrayu and his heroic travails when you've had a bad week...
Proof, perhaps, that a nut or two can change the course of history, the gunmen who strafed the Armenian parliament on Wednesday - although they appear to have had no particular plan or manifesto - may have managed to trigger a political crisis. The Armenian military Thursday demanded the resignation of a number of senior ministers over the security lapse that allowed the four gunmen to kill the country's prime minister and seven other senior politicians. "The danger now is that what appears to have been simply an outburst of insanity could be turned into a serious political crisis," says TIME...
...gunmen were arrested early Thursday after being promised a fair trial, but despite a live TV broadcast by their leader, Nairi Unanian - described in early news reports as a disgruntled journalist - nobody?s any the wiser about what really motivated the attack. "We wanted to save the Armenian people from perishing and restore its rights," Unanian said, but he articulated no clear political agenda or complaint. Although Unanian was known for his nationalist views and hard line on Armenia?s conflict with neighboring Azerbaijan, so was Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkisian, whom he shot at point-blank range...
China's crackdown on the Falun Gong sect may be inflating the size of the dragon it is trying to slay. Beijing ratcheted up its campaign against the religious group Thursday, branding it a "devil-cult" and vowing to show it no mercy. But despite the heavy prison sentences that Chinese law prescribes for members of cults, hundreds of Falun Gong members continued their almost daily protests in Tiananmen Square and elsewhere in China. Although the authorities fear the consequences of allowing a millions-strong religious sect whose leader is based in the U.S. to flourish beyond official control...
...teams of two students staff the Safetywalk line from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m., Sunday through Thursday...