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Congressional leaders are growing increasingly pessimistic about reaching a bipartisan deal that would avert a government shutdown in early April.
The relationship between Coach Jim Calhoun and the family of the Huskies’ star freshman Jeremy Lamb goes back 27 years, and it wasn’t always very happy for Calhoun.
Japan’s busiest ports in Tokyo and Yokohama are being avoided by global shipping lines fearful of radiation contamination.
Companies, particularly start-ups, are offering an array of perks — including lessons in entrepreneurship — to lure whiz kid engineers.
The retailer is pursuing its long-elusive goal of opening a New York City store with the intensity, sophistication and checkbook of a full-fledged political campaign.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 23, 2011, covering March 26, 2011.
Lupe Fiasco
Adele
Soundtrack
Avril Lavigne
R.E.M.
2011Roger Abbott, English-Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1946)[†]
Roger Abbott was an English-born Canadian sketch comedian who was a founding member of the long-lived Canadian comedy troupe Royal Canadian Air Farce, and remained one of its stars and writers until his death.
2011Geraldine Ferraro, American lawyer and politician (born 1935)[†]
Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1984 presidential election, running alongside Walter Mondale; this made her the first female vice-presidential nominee representing a major American political party. She was also a journalist, author, and businesswoman.
2011Diana Wynne Jones, English author (born 1934)[†]
Diana Wynne Jones was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults. Although usually described as fantasy, some of her work also incorporates science fiction themes and elements of realism. Jones's work often explores themes of time travel and parallel or multiple universes. Some of her better-known works are the Chrestomanci series, the Dalemark series, the three Moving Castle novels, Dark Lord of Derkholm, and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]