Monday, December 11, 2006

From the day

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The Headlines

Victory Can’t Clear Cloud Over Coughlin

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Irreplaceable

Beyoncé

#1 at the box office

$26,541,709

The must-have

Nintendo Wii

On This Day

• Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican drug war.

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• The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran, by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Naguib Mahfouz (1911)
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)
• Hector Berlioz (1803)
• Robert Koch (1843)
• Max Born (1882)

Slang

Tech Check

Twitter, Nintendo Wii & AWS (Cloud Computing).

Cost of Living (2005)