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Kenneth Y. Tomlinson used his office to run a “horse racing operation” and improperly put a friend on the payroll, according to a summary of a report.
The parallels between Andre Agassi and Serena Williams can be drawn from their splashy arrivals through the commonality of their career nadirs.
The Economic Cycle Research Institute was among the first to predict the recession after the 1990’s boom, and it is getting nervous once again.
The many dents pocking his sport utility vehicle speak to his probable distinction as the only dedicated storm chaser in Rego Park, and, who knows, maybe all of New York City.
Andrew Evans of the Inn at Easton works magic with ingredients from far away — specifically, from Australia.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 30, 2006, covering August 30, 2006.
Christina Aguilera
Lyfe Jennings
Trace Adkins
Cherish
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2006Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, New Zealand lawyer and judge (born 1926)[†]
Robin Brunskill Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, was a New Zealand judge and later a British Law Lord and member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He is widely considered one of New Zealand's most influential jurists, and is the only New Zealand judge to have sat in the House of Lords. He was a Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2006.
2006Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor and producer (born 1916)[†]
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, known as Glenn Ford, was a Canadian-born American actor. He was most prominent during Hollywood's Golden Age as one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and had a career that lasted more than 50 years.
2006Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)[†]
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through works rich in nuance – now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous – has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind". Mahfouz is regarded as one of the first contemporary writers in Arabic literature, along with Taha Hussein, to explore themes of existentialism. He is the only Egyptian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He published 35 novels, over 350 short stories, 26 screenplays, hundreds of op-ed columns for Egyptian newspapers, and seven plays over a 70-year career, from the 1930s until 2004. All of his novels take place in Egypt, and always mention the lane which equals the world. His most famous works include The Cairo Trilogy and Children of Gebelawi. Many of Mahfouz's works have been made into Egyptian and foreign films; no Arab writer exceeds Mahfouz in number of works that have been adapted for cinema and television. While Mahfouz's literature is classified as realist literature, existential themes appear in it.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]