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As a presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich would offer political acumen but would also have to grapple with aspects of his life and career that could give pause to elements of the electorate.
The N.F.L. players union plans to decertify before the collective bargaining agreement expires at midnight March 4, unless a labor agreement can be agreed to in negotiations.
The cash shortfall that required the Mets to take a $25 million loan from Major League Baseball was not the teamâs first, and it may not be the last.
Because Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi spent the last 40 years hollowing out every single institution that might challenge his authority, there are few options to succeed him.
Rebels challenging Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi showed their firepower and military coordination as defecting officers in the east took steps to establish a unified command.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 23, 2011, covering February 27, 2011.
Various Artists
Mumford & Sons
Justin Bieber
Nicki Minaj
P!nk
2011Frank Buckles, American soldier (born 1901)[â ]
Frank Woodruff Buckles was a United States Army corporal and the last surviving American military veteran of World War I. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1917 aged 16 and served with a detachment from Fort Riley, driving ambulances and motorcycles near the front lines in Europe.
2011Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish engineer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1926)[â ]
Necmettin Erbakan was a Turkish politician and political theorist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was pressured by the military to step down as prime minister and was later banned from politics by the Constitutional Court of Turkey for purportedly violating the separation of religion and state as mandated by the constitution.
2011Duke Snider, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (born 1926)[â ]
Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider, nicknamed "the Duke of Flatbush", was an American professional baseball player. Primarily a center fielder, he spent most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers (1947â1962), later playing one season each for the New York Mets (1963) and San Francisco Giants (1964).
2011Gary Winick, American director and producer (born 1961)[â ]
Gary Scott Winick was an American filmmaker whose films as a director include Tadpole (2002) and 13 Going on 30 (2004), and who also produced such films as Pieces of April (2003) and November (2004) through his New York City-based independent film production company InDigEnt.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[â ]