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The decision by Caroline Kennedy, who was seen as the top contender for the post, seemed to surprise Gov. David Paterson.
The appointment will put to use Richard D. Parsons’s ties to the Obama administration as well as his experience in running companies under a federal microscope.
The global economic slump is spreading across Asia, where countries depend on manufacturing for a far greater share of economic output than Western countries do.
The American-led coalition appears to have ceded much of the Afghan countryside to the Taliban, because it lacks sufficient forces to confront them.
From housing prices to banks, perspectives for the British economy seem bleaker than those of the U.S. or Europe.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 2009, covering January 22, 2009.
Taylor Swift
Nickelback
Kanye West
Beyonce
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2009Billy Werber, American baseball player (born 1908)[†]
William Murray Werber was an American professional baseball third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox (1933–1936), Philadelphia Athletics (1937–1938), Cincinnati Reds (1939–1941) and New York Giants (1942). He led American League third basemen in putouts and assists once each, and also led National League third basemen in assists, double plays and fielding percentage once each. A strong baserunner, he led the AL in stolen bases three times and led the NL in runs in 1939 as the Reds won the pennant. He was born in Berwyn Heights, Maryland and batted and threw right-handed.
2009U.S. President Barack Obama signs an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp; congressional opposition will prevent it being implemented.[†]
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African American president in American history. Obama previously served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]