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The last 14 months have been bruising for NPR, but Gary Knell, the former chief executive at Sesame Workshop, is hoping to restore order and revitalize the public radio network.
With a series of economic meetings scheduled, investors will be looking for some signal that a solution to the Continent’s long-running debt drama is at hand.
European leaders are working overtime on a tentative deal to try to save the euro, which they hope to complete at a crucial summit meeting this week.
Officials said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s “comprehensive reform” would include raising taxes on the wealthy but letting the millionaires’ tax lapse as scheduled.
The announcement that Laura Lang, the head of the digital advertising agency Digitas, would be the new chief executive of Time, Inc. was a bracing moment for the print romantics among us.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 30, 2011, covering December 5, 2011.
Drake
Michael Buble
Adele
Andrea Bocelli
Justin Bieber
2011Peter Gethin, English racing driver (born 1940)[†]
Peter Kenneth Gethin was a British racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1970 to 1974. Gethin won the 1971 Italian Grand Prix with BRM.
2011Gennady Logofet, Russian footballer and manager (born 1942)[†]
Gennady Olegovich Logofet was a Soviet and Russian football player and football coach.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]