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In his role as New York City’s schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott will test whether the nation’s full-tilt approach to urban education reform is ready for a different kind of leader.
More than half of the Haitians driven into camps by the 2010 earthquake have moved out, but most of them appear to have been forced out or to have left to escape crime and living conditions.
The Fed must decide whether to continue buying bonds in an effort to revive the economy, even though the recovery has flagged since the government began a $600 billion program in November.
In St. Petersburg, a city with a lively music scene, a conductor wonders whether a “Tschaikowski” orchestra exists. Roman Leontiev, identified as the orchestra’s music director, begs to differ.
The Smithsonian’s plan to show Chinese artifacts from a shipwreck mined by a commercial company raises ethical issues.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 20, 2011, covering April 24, 2011.
Adele
Britney Spears
Radiohead
Hollywood Undead
Wiz Khalifa
2011Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philanthropist (born 1926)[†]
Sathya Sai Baba was an Indian godman, guru and philanthropist. At the age of 14, he claimed to be the reincarnation of Shirdi Sai Baba and left his home saying "my devotees are calling me, I have my work".
2011WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.[†]
WikiLeaks is a non-profit media organisation and publisher of leaked documents. It is funded by donations and media partnerships. It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources. It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange. Kristinn Hrafnsson is its editor-in-chief. Its website states that it has released more than ten million documents and associated analyses. WikiLeaks' most recent publication of original documents was in 2019 and its most recent publication was in 2021. From November 2022, numerous documents on the organisation's website became inaccessible. In 2023, Assange said that WikiLeaks is no longer able to publish due to his imprisonment and the effect that US government surveillance and WikiLeaks' funding restrictions were having on potential whistleblowers.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]