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Officials at three universities profited from the sale of shares held in a student loan company that each of the universities recommends to student borrowers.
Schools in the predominantly white and wealthy town have been in danger of violating state laws on racial balance since 2000.
British sailors and marines will arrive in London today on a commercial flight from Tehran, resolving a diplomatic impasse that began on March 23.
The man, Tarik Shah, pleaded guilty to plotting to teach would-be Qaeda operatives how to wage jihad with hand-to-hand combat.
The company confirmed for the first time that it is in negotiations about a deal for the troubled American unit.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 4, 2007, covering April 5, 2007.
Modest Mouse
Joss Stone
Elliott Yamin
Daughtry
Marques Houston
2007Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (born 1923)[†]
Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter, was a Swedish author of books for children and young adults, which were often written in magical and mystical tone. She has written almost forty books, with many of her characters presented in short series of three or four books. For her lasting contribution to children's literature, she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing in 1974.
2007Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (born 1908)[†]
Leela Majumdar was an Indian Bengali-language writer.
2007Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (born 1922)[†]
Werner Maser was a German historian, journalist and professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Maser was the first historian to claim that the Hitler Diaries were forgeries.
2007Mark St. John, American guitarist (born 1956)[†]
Mark Leslie Norton, better known as Mark St. John, was an American guitarist best known for his brief stint with the hard rock band Kiss from April to November 1984. His work can be heard on the band's 1984 album Animalize and their 2023 live album Off the Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, NY. After leaving Kiss, he co-founded the band White Tiger.
2007Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (born 1912)[†]
Thomas Stoltz Harvey was an American pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955. Harvey afterwards preserved Einstein's brain on the condition that it would be studied for scientific purposes.
2007The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.[†]
Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip voyages to various ports of call, where passengers may go on tours known as "shore excursions".
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]