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The new Starz series “Magic City” is centered on a Jewish Miami Beach hotelier with ties to the mob, and it has the feel of “The Sopranos,” but set around the time of “Mad Men.”
Trusts linked to the Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev have spent a small fortune on American property. But his divorce is complicating matters.
Developers of residential buildings are finding that providing an in-house library is a low-cost frill.
Analysts predict that when reporting starts in earnest next week, American companies will show the slowest rate of growth in operating earnings in three years.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 4, 2012, covering April 6, 2012.
Soundtrack
Adele
The Shins
One Direction
Odd Future
2012Roland Guilbault, American admiral (born 1934)[†]
Roland George "Gil" Guilbault was an American U.S. Navy rear admiral who commanded the USS Ticonderoga, the first Aegis cruiser. In 1987, he served as a battle force commander aboard the USS Eisenhower. He retired as a rear admiral in 1994.
2012Thomas Kinkade, American painter and illustrator (born 1958)[†]
William Thomas Kinkade III was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects. He is notable for achieving success during his lifetime with the mass marketing of his work as printed reproductions and other licensed products by means of the Thomas Kinkade Company. According to Kinkade's company, one in every twenty American homes owned a copy of one of his paintings.
2012Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist and academic (born 1936)[†]
Fang Lizhi was a Chinese astrophysicist, vice-president of the University of Science and Technology of China, and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Fang was considered as one of the leaders of the New Enlightenment in the 1980s. Because of his activism, he was expelled from the Chinese Communist Party in January 1987. For his work, Fang was a recipient of the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights Award in 1989, given each year. He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980, but his position was revoked after 1989.
2012Sheila Scotter, Australian fashion designer and journalist (born 1920)[†]
Sheila Winifred Gordon Scotter, AM, MBE was an Australian businesswoman. She was a fashion designer and third editor of the Vogue Australia magazine. She also founded the Vogue Living magazine. She was famous for always wearing black and white clothing and leaving her hair silver. This earned her the nickname, the Silver Duchess. She was honoured for her journalism and her fundraising for opera.
2012Reed Whittemore, American poet and critic (born 1919)[†]
Edward Reed Whittemore, Jr. was an American poet, biographer, critic, literary journalist and college professor. He was appointed the sixteenth and later the twenty-eighth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1964, and in 1984.
2012Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.[†]
Azawad, or Azawagh, was a short-lived unrecognised state lasting between 2012 and 2013. Azawagh (Azawaɣ) is the generic Tuareg Berber name for all Tuareg Berber areas, especially the northern half of Mali and northern and western Niger. The Azawadi declaration of independence was declared unilaterally by the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) in 2012, after a Tuareg rebellion drove the Malian Armed Forces from the region.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]