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Donald Herbert, Buffalo firefighter who awoke from coma he fell into after roof collapsed on top of him while fighting fire in 1995, dies from complications after being admitted to hospital suffering from pneumonia; photo (M)
Selena Roberts Sports of The Times column discusses US figure skater Sasha Cohen, who finishes short program in first place; photos (M)
New York Knicks are expected to acquire Orlando Magic guard Steve Francis and forward Pat Garrity for three Knicks players; photo (M)
For all its success in the United States -- and there is plenty of it -- Wal-Mart Stores is still struggling to figure out its home turf, where sales growth at individual stores has sagged, its customers routinely flirt with rivals like Target for clothing and its advertising has often failed to inspire. The retailer's plans to fix the problems became clearer yesterday, when Wal-Mart executives pledged to remodel nearly half of its United States stores over the next 18 months, beef up its marketing division and expand a bold line of clothing across much of the chain.
Lawrence H. Summers resigned yesterday as president of Harvard University after a relatively brief and turbulent tenure of five years, nudged by Harvard's governing corporation and facing a vote of no confidence from the influential Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The announcement by Dr. Summers, an economist and a former secretary of the Treasury, disappointed many students on the campus and raised questions about future leaders' ability to govern Harvard with its vocal and independent-minded faculty.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 22, 2006, covering February 22, 2006.
Jack Johnson
Mary J. Blige
Barry Manilow
Andrea Bocelli
Dem Franchize Boyz
2006S. Rajaratnam, Singaporean politician, 1st Senior Minister of Singapore (born 1915)[†]
Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, better known as S. Rajaratnam, was a Singaporean statesman, journalist and diplomat who served as the first Minister for Foreign Affairs between 1965 and 1980, and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore between 1980 and 1985.
2006At approximately 6:44 a.m. local Iraqi time, explosions occurred at the al-Askari Shrine in Samarra, Iraq. The attack on the shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, caused the escalation of sectarian tensions in Iraq into a full-scale civil war.[†]
UTC+03:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +03:00. In areas using this time offset, the time is three hours ahead of the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Following the ISO 8601 standard, a time with this offset would be written as, for example, 2019-02-08T23:36:06+03:00.
2006The Securitas depot robbery was the UK's largest heist. Almost £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) was stolen from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.[†]
The 2006 Securitas depot robbery in Tonbridge, England, was the UK's largest cash heist. It began with a kidnapping on the evening of 21 February 2006 and ended in the early hours of 22 February, when seven criminals stole almost £53 million. The gang left behind another £154 million because they did not have the means to transport it.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]