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Serena Williams’s inactivity over the past 12 months meant she entered the Open as the 28th seed, which produced an early meeting with the fourth-seeded Victoria Azarenka.
The Obama administration has initiated a last-ditch diplomatic campaign to avert a confrontation over a plan by Palestinians to seek recognition as a state.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg rejected the notion that he had an obligation to say why his deputy mayor had quit.
Government officials called for the country’s automakers to shift away from making more cars and toward producing more fuel-efficient and technologically advanced ones.
The agency is so low on cash that it will not be able to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month and may have to shut down entirely this winter unless Congress acts to stabilize its finances.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 31, 2011, covering September 4, 2011.
Jay Z Kanye West
Adele
Various Artists
Luke Bryan
Jason Aldean
2011Lee Roy Selmon, American football player (born 1954)[†]
Lee Roy Selmon was an American professional football player who was a defensive end for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football as a defensive tackle at the University of Oklahoma, the youngest of three brothers to play football there.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]