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Regardless of where he goes, the director Ang Lee, the subject of a new retrospective that begins on Saturday at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, is always something of an outsider.
As the recession drags on, luxury retailers’ secret sales, once kept for the stores’ best customers, have spread.
To sell polo to Americans, it helps to look the part. Nacho Figueras has it covered.
“Defying Gravity,” a science-fiction series on ABC that begins on Sunday, has high-tech props and a spooky sci-fi mystery, but it is layered in feminine concerns.
Jarvis Cocker, former leader of Pulp, performed songs from his solo albums at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Thursday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 29, 2009, covering August 1, 2009.
Daughtry
Maxwell
Soundtrack
Various Artists
The Black Eyed Peas
2009Corazon Aquino, Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines (born 1933)[†]
María Corazón "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines and the first woman president in the country, from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the establishment of the current democratic Fifth Philippine Republic.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]