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Iowa, which largely sidestepped the housing crash, is an odd staging ground for an election that is often said to be all about jobs and the economy.
In a predictably ragged first game, the Knicks held off the Nets and got a pleasant surprise in the play of rookie guard Iman Shumpert, who had 16 points in 25 minutes off the bench.
Intensifying heat on Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. comes as the Justice Department is stepping into some of the most politically divisive issues of the day.
Mr. Havelâs eloquent dissections of Communist rule helped to destroy it in revolutions that brought down the Berlin Wall and swept him into power.
The sheer, calculated brutality of Saturdayâs attack on an elderly woman in Brooklyn stunned even the most hardened of homicide detectives.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 14, 2011, covering December 18, 2011.
Michael Buble
Adele
Justin Bieber
Drake
Nickelback
2011VĂĄclav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (born 1936)[â ]
VĂĄclav Havel was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until 1992, prior to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on 31 December, before he became the first president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. He was the first democratically elected president of either country after the fall of communism. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays and memoirs.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[â ]