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Electrical maintenance was scheduled to take place at the data center from 6:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. today, according to a notice on FAS IT's Web site. It is unclear whether maintenance activities had a role in today's outage...
...most important story of this decade? - Jared May, Boston I would say 9/11. We're fighting two wars in its name. It changed how we are viewed in the world and changed how my children's generation will grow up as Americans. It changed how I entered this building today...
...Safire floated Zippy Zeros. (It sank.) In 1999 a New York City arts collective mounted a campaign to name the decade the naughties, plugging the moniker on posters and stickers around the city. Attempts to poll our way to consensus failed. One in 6 voters in a 1999 USA Today poll preferred a variant of the aughts to the 2Ks, the Zips and the First Decade, among other options; in a separate survey the same year, 20% of respondents picked the Double O's. Meanwhile, in a poll by the British p.r. firm QBO, the Zeroes prevailed...
...After Saturday night's savage crackdown in Jamaran, again today the worst was not long in coming. By the middle of the day, Ashura 2009 had produced its own martyrs...
...Pandemonium ensued. During earlier protests, chants of "Death to the dictator" would have been heard - calls that automatically follow scenes of open police brutality. But today something snapped. "Death to Khamenei" was the call of escaping protesters...