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A well-heeled coalition is pushing to enact a public financing system for elections, starting next week with mailings to the constituents of four state senators.
Mitt Romney’s campaign finds itself squeezed between its intensifying efforts to appeal to women and its need to avoid alienating conservatives.
The government’s decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put Amazon, the nation’s largest bookseller, in a powerful position to decide how much an e-book will cost.
The Guggenheim Foundation and UBS are starting a five-year program to work with artists, curators and educators from South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa.
The most prominent N.B.A. rivalry of the 1980s provides the basis for the new play “Magic/Bird,” on Broadway at the Longacre Theater.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 11, 2012, covering April 12, 2012.
Madonna
Lionel Richie
Adele
Shinedown
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2012Mohit Chattopadhyay, Indian poet and playwright (born 1934)[†]
Mohit Chattopadhyaya was a Bengali Indian playwright, screenwriter, dramatist and poet. He was a leading figure in modern Indian drama. Mohit Chottopadhya died on 12 April 2012. He had been suffering from cancer.
2012Rodgers Grant, American pianist and composer (born 1935)[†]
Rodgers Lee Grant was an American jazz pianist, composer, and lyricist. After working with saxophonist Hugo Dickens in the 1950s, he became pianist for Mongo Santamaría in the 1960s. In 1963, Grant wrote the hit "Yeh! Yeh!" with Pat Patrick. Jon Hendricks wrote lyrics for the song and recorded it with Lambert and Bavan at the Newport Jazz Festival of 1963. Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames had a hit with the song in 1965.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]