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President Obama’s State of the Union proposals seek to acknowledge the public frustration that few financial executives were prosecuted after the crisis.
To free scarce capital for classrooms and labs, some universities, including Montclair State in New Jersey, have decided to farm out the construction of residence halls.
With mounting debts, negligible growth and dwindling foreign reserves, Egypt’s military rulers and the new Islamist-led Parliament face a crisis that could undermine the political transition.
Navy Seals, drawn from the unit that killed Osama bin Laden, rescued two hostages, including an American woman, who had been held for months.
In “Luck,” starring Dustin Hoffman and directed by Michael Mann, horses, and people, jostle for position.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 25, 2012, covering January 25, 2012.
Adele
David Crowder Band
The Black Keys
Drake
Snow Patrol
2012Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and conductor (born 1929)[†]
Paavo Allan Engelbert Berglund was a Finnish conductor and violinist.
2012Jacques Maisonrouge, French businessman (born 1924)[†]
Jacques Gaston Maisonrouge was a French businessman who became chairman of IBM World Trade Corporation. He was born in 1924 at Cachan to Paul and Suzanne Maisonrouge. He graduated from the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. He married Francoise Féron in 1948; they had five children.
2012Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and academic (born 1939)[†]
Franco Pacini was an Italian astrophysicist and professor at the University of Florence. He carried out research, mostly in High Energy Astrophysics, in Italy, France, United States and at the European Southern Observatory.
2012Robert Sheran, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1916)[†]
Robert Joseph Sheran was an American lawyer, politician, and judge. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court by Governor Wendell Anderson, serving from December 1973 to December 1981. He previously served as an associate justice on the court from January 1963 to July 1970, appointed by Governor Elmer L. Andersen. He is the only person to have been appointed to two separate tenures on the Minnesota Supreme Court by different governors.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]