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A battle erupts near a mosque in northwest Falluja merely hours after U.S. Marines declared that insurgents were now trapped in the south of the city.
Insurgents determined to show they are undeterred by the four-day-old offensive in Iraq's most rebellious city have hit back hard with attacks an ... |
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Intel's board of directors elects current president and chief operating officer Paul Otellini as the next CEO to succeed Craig Barrett. Barret will be the new chairman of the board. |
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Neville Isdell, the new CEO at the Coca Cola Company, announces that the soft drink maker is lowering its sales targets. |
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The University of Michigan's preliminary reading of US Consumer Confidence for the month of November climbed to 95.5 from 91.7 in October. Economists had forecast a more moderate rise to 93.0. |
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As US Forces continue to push into southern Fallujah, an audiotape made by extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi urged insurgents to keep fighting. Marine Capt. Robert Bodisch declares "I would say we control about 80 percent of Fallujah now," |
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A federal lawsuit is heard in Atlanta to decide whether Cobb County, Georgia school officials violated the constitutional separation of church and state when they placed disclaimer stickers in high school biology texts in 2002 stating that evolution should be "critically considered." |
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The Black Watch defeats a squad of suicide bombers and arrests two insurgents after firefights and a helicopter chase across the Iraqi desert. |
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Capt. Leo V. Merck takes photos of naked U.S. female soldiers at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and is turned in the next day by the three women. |
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Robertson Stephens reiterated buy rating on AMD following the company's analyst meeting and belief that Athlon is driving processor revenue faster than expected. |
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Germany's Daimler Benz buys out Chrysler Corporation, but originally sells the deal as a "merger of equals." The proposed merger had been announced May 7th, 1998. |
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Hideki Tojo is sentenced to death and executed by hanging. Tojo approved government-sanctioned biological experiments on POWs. |
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First air-to-air refueling made when Wesley May stepped from wing of one aircraft to that of another with a 5-gallon can of gasoline strapped to his back. |
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