New Online-Date Detectives Can Unmask Mr. or Ms. Wrong
By Stephanie Rosenbloom
Never mind whether your date is smart or good-looking. How do you know you aren’t flirting with a felon?
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On this day
December 19, 2010
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Politics in Iraq Casts Doubt on a U.S. Presence After 2011
By Steven Lee Myers, Thom Shanker and Jack Healy
As contingency planning for any lasting American military mission has continued, the political landscape in both countries has made it more possible that the 2011 withdrawal could truly be total.
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Road No Relief for Knicks, and Losing Streak Grows
By Jonathan Abrams
Amar’e Stoudemire and Raymond Felton each scored 23 points for the Knicks, who have lost three straight after winning 13 of 14.
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Democrats Scramble to Save Votes to Ratify Nuclear Pact
By Peter Baker
The top two Senate Republicans vowed to vote against President Obama’s treaty with Russia as the bipartisan spirit of last week’s tax deal devolved.
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Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom
By Anthony Tommasini
Simon Rattle made his Metropolitan Opera debut on Friday, conducting Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande,” with what he described as a dream cast.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 15, 2010, covering December 19, 2010.
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The Gift
Susan Boyle
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Speak Now
Taylor Swift
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O Holy Night (EP)
Jackie Evancho
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Glee: The Music; The Christmas Album
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Glee: The Music; Season Two: Volume 4
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Notable Deaths
2010Anthony Howard, English journalist and author (born 1934)[†]
Anthony Michell Howard, CBE was a British journalist, broadcaster and writer. He was the editor of the New Statesman and The Listener and the deputy editor of The Observer. He selected the passages used in The Crossman Diaries, a book of entries taken from Richard Crossman's The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister.
Historical Context for December 19, 2010
In 2010, the world population was approximately 7,021,732,148 people[†]