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October 31, 2010

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Down From the Heights

By Robin Pogrebin

The Starn twins’ rooftop sculpture, “Big BambĂș,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was hard work and a bit of a struggle. And now it’s coming down.

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 27, 2010, covering October 31, 2010.

  1. 1
    Album cover for I Am Not A Human Being by Lil Wayne

    I Am Not A Human Being

    Lil Wayne

    Last week
    16
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    3
  2. 2
    Album cover for Charleston; SC 1966 by Darius Rucker

    Charleston; SC 1966

    Darius Rucker

    Last week
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    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    1
  3. 3
    Album cover for BTR (Soundtrack) by Big Time Rush

    BTR (Soundtrack)

    Big Time Rush

    Last week
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    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    1
  4. 4
    Album cover for The Band Perry by The Band Perry

    The Band Perry

    The Band Perry

    Last week
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    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    1
  5. 5
    Album cover for Recovery by Eminem

    Recovery

    Eminem

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    17

Notable Deaths

Ted Sorensen

2010Ted Sorensen, American lawyer, 8th White House Counsel (born 1928)[†]

Theodore Chaikin Sorensen was an American lawyer, writer, and presidential adviser. He was a speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy, as well as one of his closest advisers. President Kennedy once called him his "intellectual blood bank". He collaborated with Kennedy on the book Profiles in Courage, "assembling and preparing" much of the research on which the book was based. Kennedy won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Sorensen helped draft Kennedy's inaugural address and Lyndon Johnson's Let Us Continue speech following Kennedy's assassination, and was the primary author of Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech.

Historical Context for October 31, 2010

In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]