Appeals for calm by Shiites and Sunnis, as well as American officials in Iraq, appeared to have headed off the risk of a new sectarian convulsion, at least for now.
Going digital in television, like seemingly everything involving computers, makes for a better product—but one that's more complicated, mysterious, and irritating. The reception we get through new, digital TV broadcasts is clear and sharp, even on a 20-year-old set. When we get reception, that is.
Sounding more like news from the U.S. auto industry than from higher ed, Antioch College announced that its main undergraduate college would close up shop July 2008 because of dwindling enrollment and falling revenues, the Dayton Daily News reports.
AP - At least three Sunni mosques were attacked south of the capital Thursday, police said, in apparent retaliation for the destruction of two minarets at the Shiite Askariya shrine in Samarra a day earlier.
AP - A Democratic challenge to Gen. Peter Pace indicates that uniformed officers no longer are exempt from the partisan fire on Capitol Hill once reserved for civilian policymakers.
AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time Thursday ordered his elite presidential guard to strike back against Hamas militants bent on besieging his Gaza City compound.
Gaps in knowledge could prevent legal information sharing about potential killers, according to a report into Virginia Tech massacre. The federal report published Wednesday said educators, doctors and police sometimes did not know when they could share information on students. In April, Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 fellow Tech students and faculty members before killing himself in the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.
A member of the Lebanese parliament was killed in an explosion Wednesday outside a Beirut military sports club in what hospital sources called an assassination. Walid Eido, a known foe of Syrian involvement in Lebanon, is the latest in a series of anti-Syrian Lebanese politicians to be killed. At least six other people died in the blast, which ripped apart cars and shattered windows.