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President Obama, who will meet with the bipartisan leadership of Congress on Thursday, wants to move well beyond the $2 trillion in savings sought earlier.
Line-skirting has always been part of doing business for Rupert Murdoch, but a voice-mail hacking scandal poses a new type of threat to News Corporation’s image.
In just six months in office, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has had several major legislative victories, thanks to his ability to work a system that stymied his predecessors.
An arrest seems imminent for The News of the World’s once politically influential former editor after the Murdochs announced plans to shut down the tabloid.
Blake Shelton, a celebrity coach on “The Voice,” is the highest-profile country star appearing regularly in prime time and among the most visible ambassadors from Nashville to the American mainstream.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 2011, covering July 7, 2011.
Jill Scott
Bon Iver
Adele
Jackie Evancho
Justin Moore
2011Allan W. Eckert, American historian and author (born 1931)[†]
Allan Wesley Eckert was an American novelist and playwright who specialized in historical novels for adults and children, and was also a naturalist. His novel Incident at Hawk's Hill (1971) was initially marketed to adults and selected by Reader's Digest Condensed Books. A runner-up for the Newbery Medal, it was afterward marketed as a children's novel and adapted by Disney for a television movie known as The Boy Who Talked to Badgers (1975).
2011Dick Williams, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1929)[†]
Richard Hirschfeld Williams was an American left fielder, third baseman, manager, coach and front-office consultant in Major League Baseball (MLB). Known especially as a hard-driving, sharp-tongued manager from 1967 to 1969 and from 1971 to 1988, he led teams to three American League pennants, one National League pennant, and two World Series triumphs. He is one of nine managers to win pennants in both major leagues, and joined Bill McKechnie in becoming only the second manager to lead three franchises to the Series. He and Lou Piniella are the only managers in history to lead four teams to seasons of 90 or more wins. Williams was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008 following his election by the Veterans Committee.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]