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Comments by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. amounted to a vigorous defense of two of his colleagues on the Supreme Court, Justices Clarence Thomas and Elena Kagan.
âGator Boysâ and âAmerican Stuffers,â both new Animal Planet series, and âHook, Line & Sistersâ on TLC, highlight women cracking fields once dominated by men.
Just as confidence had been rising among Mitt Romney and his aides that they could pull off a win in Iowa, Rick Santorum emerged as the latest in a rotating cast of surging alternatives.
William Gibson, the novelist who coined the term cyberspace, offers a collection of nonfiction pieces.
A progress report on some shows announced for Broadway that have yet to make their bows, and some of the factors that have caused delays.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 28, 2011, covering January 1, 2012.
Michael Buble
Adele
Justin Bieber
The Black Keys
Lady Antebellum
2012Bob Anderson, English fencer (born 1922)[â ]
Robert James Gilbert Anderson was an English Olympic fencer and a renowned film fight choreographer, with a cinema career that spanned more than 50 years and included films such as Highlander, The Three Musketeers, Barry Lyndon, The Princess Bride, The Mask of Zorro, the Star Wars film series, The Lord of the Rings film series, the James Bond film series and the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. He was regarded as the premier choreographer of Hollywood sword-fighting, and during his career he coached many actors in swordsmanship, including Errol Flynn, Sean Connery, Antonio Banderas, Mark Hamill, Viggo Mortensen, Adrian Paul, and Johnny Depp. He also appeared as a stunt double for Darth Vader's lightsaber battles in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
2012Kiro Gligorov, Macedonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Macedonia (born 1917)[â ]
Kiro Gligorov was a Macedonian and Yugoslav statesman, economist, and politician who served as the first president of the Republic of Macedonia from 1991 to 1999. He was born and raised in Ć tip, where he was also educated. He continued his education in Skopje and graduated in law in Belgrade. During World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia, he worked as a lawyer and participated in the partisan resistance. By the end of the war, he was an organiser of the Anti-fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia, the predecessor of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia as a federal Yugoslav state.
2012Nay Win Maung, Burmese physician, businessman, and activist (born 1962)[â ]
Nay Win Maung was a Burmese physician, businessman and pro-democracy activist.
2012Tommy Mont, American football player and coach (born 1922)[â ]
Thomas Allison Mont was an American educator, university administrator, college football coach, and National Football League (NFL) player. He played quarterback for the Washington Redskins as a back-up behind Sammy Baugh for three seasons. Mont served as the head football coach for three years at the University of Maryland and eighteen years at DePauw University. He also served as the DePauw athletic director for fifteen years.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]