My hand-over notes contained audited accounts from January 1st to March 31st 1999.

ECONOMIST: Letters

The Senate wants the troops - the combat troops to be out by March 31st next year, just a year from this weekend, but their language is less binding.

NPR: Senate Approves Iraq Withdrawal Timetable

The former rebel army, now calling themselves the Republican Forces, swept down from their base in the north, arriving in Abidjan on March 31st after meeting little resistance on the way.

ECONOMIST: C?te d'Ivoire's upheaval

The show centers around flash mobs, the phenomenon when a bunch of seemingly random people in a public place suddenly start putting on a coordinated dance show. (For an example see a clip from Modern Family at the bottom of this post.) Fox will premier the show as a special on March 31st after American Idol.

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