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Keith Urban, Adele and John Mayer have all canceled concerts after opting for throat surgery, a result of new methods for detecting physical problems.
Financial institutions around the world are getting rid of holdings in European government debt and spurning new bond issues, raising fear of a credit crisis.
Pessimism mounted among members of a Congressional panel on deficit reduction about their ability to strike a deal by Monday and avert a high-profile failure.
Senator Scott P. Brown of Massachusetts, a leading fund-raiser in the financial industry, is expected to face Elizabeth Warren, a strong proponent of regulation, next year.
Congressional Republicans have vowed not to raise taxes, but combinations of tax increases and spending cuts are a time-honored way to cut the deficit.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 16, 2011, covering November 19, 2011.
Justin Bieber
Wale
Miranda Lambert
Susan Boyle
Adele
2011Ămer LĂŒtfi Akad, Turkish director and screenwriter (born 1916)[â ]
LĂŒtfi Ămer Akad was a Turkish film director, screenwriter, and academic, who directed movies from 1948 to 1990. In 1949, he debuted as a film director with Vurun Kahpeye an adaptation of Halide Edib Adıvar's book of the same title. He became one of the pioneers of the period in the "Director Generation". His 1970s trilogy comprising The Bride, The Wedding and The Sacrifice, is considered his masterpiece. Afterwards, he withdrew from movie making instead directing adaptations for TV.
2011John Neville, English actor (born 1925)[â ]
John Reginald Neville was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than sixty years. He was renowned for his roles on both stage and screen in genres ranging from classical theatre to fantasy and science fiction.
2011Ruth Stone, American poet and author (born 1915)[â ]
Ruth Stone was an American poet.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[â ]