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The concern about Mark Sanchez entering the draft was that he started just 16 games in college, but on Thursday he wasted no time asserting the leadership skills for which he has been praised.
In a relatively rare confluence of theater and politics, the critically lauded production of “Torture” opened nine days before the Justice Department made public four memos that described brutal interrogation techniques.
The Obama administration is reaching out to the former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, whose ties to Islamists could help President Asif Ali Zardari confront the Taliban.
There may be worse Jewish museums in the world than the Jüdisches Museum Berlin. But it is difficult to imagine that any could be as uninspiring and banal, particularly given its pedigree and promise.
As Justice David H. Souter departs, the president could move the court back toward what it has been for most of its history: a collection of prominent individuals with broad experience.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 29, 2009, covering May 2, 2009.
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Day26
Rascal Flatts
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Various Artists
2009Marilyn French, American author and academic (born 1929)[†]
Marilyn French was an American radical feminist author, most widely known for her second book and first novel, the 1977 work The Women's Room.
2009Kiyoshiro Imawano, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (born 1951)[†]
Kiyoshiro Imawano , born Kiyoshi Kurihara , was a Japanese rock musician, lyricist, composer, musical producer, and actor from Tokyo, Japan. He was dubbed "Japan's King of Rock". He formed and led the influential rock band RC Succession. He wrote many anti-nuclear songs following the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. He was known for pioneering the adoption of linguistic characteristics of the Japanese language into his songs.
2009Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (born 1935)[†]
Jack French Kemp was an American politician, professional football player, and U.S. Army veteran. A member of the Republican Party from New York, he served as the 9th United States secretary of housing and urban development in the administration of President George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1993, having previously served nine terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1971 to 1989. He was the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1996 election, as the running mate of Bob Dole; they lost to incumbent president Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Kemp had previously contended for the presidential nomination in the 1988 Republican primaries.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]