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Over the past two decades, Rick Santorum has undergone a religious transformation that is now spurring a national conversation about faith in the public sphere.
Having failed to secure the nomination in the first two months of voting, Mitt Romney is turning, his aides say, to a methodical delegate accumulation similar to President Obamaâs 2008 campaign.
Vladimir V. Putinâs widely expected victory in Russiaâs presidential election set up a confrontation with an opposition movement that has rallied tens of thousands of protesters.
In a speech to a pro-Israel lobbying group, President Obama gave a forceful defense of his commitment to Israelâs security, taking on criticism from his Republican rivals.
As the clamor over the debt crisis subsides somewhat, multinational corporations are picking their spots in Europe for the day the economy turns the corner.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 29, 2012, covering March 4, 2012.
Adele
Whitney Houston
Various Artists
Adele
Various Artists
2012Paul McBride, Scottish lawyer and politician (born 1965)[â ]
Paul McBride QC was a Scottish criminal lawyer based in Edinburgh. He was a board member of the Scottish Legal Aid Board, and a former vice chairman of the Faculty of Advocates Criminal Bar Association. He died suddenly on a trip to Pakistan.
2012Don Mincher, American baseball player (born 1938)[â ]
Donald Ray Mincher was an American Major League Baseball first baseman and longtime minor league executive. He played in the majors from 1960 to 1972 for the "original" Washington Senators and Minnesota Twins, California Angels, Seattle Pilots, Oakland Athletics, and the expansion Washington Senators and Texas Rangers, all of the American League. The native of Huntsville, Alabama, batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and was listed as 6Â feet 3Â inches (1.91Â m) tall and weighed 205 pounds (93Â kg). He was a member of the last editions of each of Washington's two 20th Century American League teams and their first-year squads in their new locales, MinneapolisâSaint Paul (1961) and DallasâFort Worth (1972).
2012A series of explosions is reported at a munitions dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo, killing at least 250 people.[â ]
On 4 March 2012, a series of blasts occurred at an army arms dump in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo. At least 300 people were killed by the explosions. Additional bodies were said to be "unfindable." Among the dead were six Chinese workers from a Beijing Construction Engineering Group work site close to the armoury. Interior Minister Raymond Mboulou said that nearby hospitals were overflowing with injuries, with many wounded lying in hallways due to lack of space. Total injuries exceeded 2,500. More than 121,000 people were left homeless and 672 million dollars in damages were done. One survivor described the event as feeling like "the apocalypse;" others described it as "like a tsunami" or "earthquake".
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]