
2012Furman Bisher, American journalist and author (born 1918)[†]
James Furman Bisher was an American newspaper sportswriter and columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in Atlanta, Georgia.
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2012Furman Bisher, American journalist and author (born 1918)[†]
James Furman Bisher was an American newspaper sportswriter and columnist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in Atlanta, Georgia.
2012William R. Charette, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1932)[†]
William Richard Charette was a United States Navy master chief hospital corpsman who received the nation's highest military decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor. He was awarded the medal for heroic actions "above and beyond the call of duty" on March 27, 1953, while assigned to a Marine Corps rifle company during the Korean War. He retired from the Navy after 26 years of service.
2012William G. Moore Jr., American general (born 1920)[†]
William Grover Moore Jr. was a general in the United States Air Force and the former commander-in-chief of Military Airlift Command. Moore was a combat veteran with 100 missions flown during World War II and the Korean War, and more than 140 missions in the Vietnam War.
2012George Tupou V of Tonga (born 1948)[†]
George Tupou V was King of Tonga from 2006 until his death in 2012. He was the eldest son of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV.
Will Sheehey hit the game-winning jumper with 12.7 seconds remaining and Indiana advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time in a decade.
Clear fissures have developed among pro-Israel groups, including among hard-liners themselves, over just how aggressively to confront Iran.
A small crew with a tiny marketing budget made gradual use of social media to build interest in a movie with tricky subject matter.
A crop of military memoirs has found an audience among readers eager to embrace stories that accentuate heroism.
Stars of the Maastricht art fair include a Rubens, a Hennry Moore and an ancient Chinese cauldron.
Nonfiction should mean facts and nothing but the facts, argues the theater critic Charles Isherwood, in support of the retraction by “This American Life” of a program about Mike Daisey’s “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.”
The SXSW festival in Austin, Tex., offered 2,000 acts this year.
As Apple’s cash balance has piled up, analysts and investors have begun to call more loudly for it to return some of the money to shareholders as dividends.
Kendall Marshall sustained a fractured right wrist on a hard foul late in the game against Creighton, and his status for the rest of tournament is undetermined.
Sidney Crosby had three assists as the Pittsburgh Penguins dominated the Devils, 5-2.
New York struggled to get the puck past Colorado goalie Semyon Varlamov, despite carrying the play for most of the game.
Royal Ivey, an eight-year N.B.A. veteran, is one of the very few athletes who make it into professional sports, but he understood he had to go back to school and get a degree.