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As part of its $8.5 billion settlement with investors, Bank of America will turn over the work on tens of thousands of troubled mortgages to smaller servicers.
Central Falls, R.I., cannot afford to pay its pension benefits, but a bankruptcy could set off a chain reaction that might put the state itself on the brink.
Research has determined that women were much less likely than men to fake injuries on the soccer field. Still, the practice played a key role in United States’ quarterfinal victory over Brazil.
As archivists prepare to make public 63 boxes of Robert F. Kennedy’s papers at the John F. Kennedy Library, his family members are having second thoughts about where they should be housed.
Sometimes, the stories that immigrants offer to support pleas to remain in the United States are more fiction than fact.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 2011, covering July 12, 2011.
Jill Scott
Bon Iver
Adele
Jackie Evancho
Justin Moore
2011Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer (born 1916)[†]
Sherwood Charles Schwartz was an American television screenwriter and producer. He worked on radio shows in the 1940s, but he now is best known for creating the 1960s television series Gilligan's Island on CBS and The Brady Bunch on ABC. On March 7, 2008, Schwartz, at the time still active in his 90s, was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That same year, Schwartz was also inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]