Normally an employee is placed on a week 1 or month 1 basis when the tax deductions history for the current financial year are incomplete and the week 1 month 1 basis is removed when the missing history is determined.
Times News Service. Barbara W. Tuchman, whose skill at writing histories of men at war and at the brink of war won her two Pulitzer Prizes, died Monday at Greenwich, Conn., Hospital of complications following a stroke. She was 77 and had been admitted to the hospital after suffering the stroke at her home in Cos Cob, Conn.
Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya. The assassination of Anna Politkovskaya (born 1958), a Russian journalist, writer and human rights activist, took place on 7 October 2006. She was known for her opposition to the Chechen conflict and for criticism of Vladimir Putin. She authored several books about the Chechen wars, as well as Putin's Russia, and received numerous international awards for her work. Her murder, believed to be a contract killing, sparked a strong international reaction.