Russians pause to mourn their dead a day after suicide bombers struck a pair of Moscow subway stations in a deadly rush-hour attack.

One official said a soldier was killed and five troops were wounded. Hearing his voice was like picking a scab of a wound that will never heal. Linebacker Keith Rivers, nursing a hamstring injury, said he hopes to return to practice in a week.. PAULA FOX’S “The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe” challenges not just literature’s usual calibrations — major, minor, big, small — but also the designation of genre: in this case, memoir.

Dunn contends that the Guard ranks include “a significant number of ghost positions” listed by the department in order to obtain extra funding.Dunn, who estimates that the Guard’s troop strength is several thousand fewer than listed, plans hearings to probe this and other issues.Concern among state officials increased after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast Aug. Schroder, the 9th Circuit’s Chief Judge and a Carter appointee; and Jay S Bybee and Consuelo M Callahan, both appointees of President George W. The major indexes finished the week mixed.Pfizer’s profit warning dragged the Dow Jones industrial average into negative territory for most of the day and added to traders’ concerns about weak overall corporate earnings in 2006 amid a slowing economy. The two-year T-note also ended at 4.52%, up from 4.51%.With the Fed’s key rate at 4.5%, the so-called yield curve is said to be flat.