1.   Here and there, houses are rising between the blackened hulks, shops are being replastered and roads are being repaved.

2.   Muslim-owned businesses have been burned, and their blackened hulks dot the landscape.

3.   Trucks haul in old limousines and haul out bullet-riddled blackened hulks.

4.   A few hardened Chechen snipers reportedly remained holed up on upper floors of the presidential palace -- a blackened hulk that rebel forces formally abandoned Thursday.

5.   A few Chechen snipers reportedly were holed up on the upper floors of the presidential palace -- a blackened hulk that rebel forces formally abandoned Thursday.

6.   A few hardened Chechen snipers reportedly are holed up on upper floors of the palace -- a blackened hulk that rebel forces abandoned Thursday.

7.   Both sides say Chechen snipers remain in the upper floors of the palace, now a blackened hulk.