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Solyndra, the failed solar company that became a political flashpoint, is selling off its equipment, but how much the auction will bring in is uncertain.
Time Warner wants to cut back its overhead, including office space, so that it can continue investing in its shows, movies and journalism.
From Los Angeles to Wall Street, homeless men and women have joined the protesters in large numbers, and divisions have arisen across the country about how much, if at all, to embrace them.
Herman Cain maintained that he had been falsely accused while chief of the National Restaurant Association.
Karin Coonrod’s rowdy production of “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” is a streamlined interpretation of Shakespeare’s early comedy about men trying to do without women — and failing.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 26, 2011, covering November 1, 2011.
Evanescence
Adele
Five Finger Death Punch
Scotty McCreery
Lauren Alaina
2011Cahit Aral, Turkish engineer and politician, Turkish Minister of Industry and Commerce (born 1927)[†]
Hüseyin Cahit Aral was a Turkish engineer, politician and former government minister.
2011Mario Draghi succeeds Jean-Claude Trichet and becomes the third president of the European Central Bank.[†]
Mario Draghi is an Italian politician, economist, academic, banker, statesman, and civil servant, who served as the prime minister of Italy from 13 February 2021 to 22 October 2022. Prior to his appointment as prime minister, he served as the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) between 2011 and 2019. Draghi was also the chair of the Financial Stability Board between 2009 and 2011, and governor of the Bank of Italy between 2006 and 2011.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]