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Daniel Bergner’s “The Other Side of Desire,” which comes out on Tuesday, is a serious and sympathetic book about people most of us would call perverts or weirdos.
Home-grown rap, an avenue of self-expression for young Chinese, cannot get broadcast but its fan base is growing.
Shareholders are angry over Kenneth D. Lewis’s acquisition of Merrill Lynch, and the lawsuits are flying.
“Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper,” at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, presents early examples of news and opinion.
Video games are poised to become an even more established and central component of mainstream culture in 2009.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 2009, covering January 24, 2009.
Taylor Swift
Nickelback
Kanye West
Beyonce
Soundtrack
2009Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France, causing 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.[†]
Cyclone Klaus was a European windstorm or cyclone that made landfall over large parts of central and southern France, Spain and parts of Italy in January 2009. The storm was the most damaging since Lothar and Martin in December 1999. The storm caused widespread damage across France and Spain, especially in northern Spain.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]