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Chess dominates the culture at Intermediate School 318, where most students come from families with incomes below the federal poverty level.
A report that Sony gave to investors this year calls for major job cuts at EMI, the music publishing company that it is buying.
A Chinese official who said he had information about Bo Xilai sought and was denied asylum at an American Consulate in China, ensnaring the Obama administration in a politically sensitive episode.
Some fear that a price-fixing lawsuit might give Amazon a pass to offer discounts that could put its competitors out of business.
As he moves to focus on President Obama as his sole opponent, Mitt Romney will likely be expected to offer a more precise position on the war in Afghanistan.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 18, 2012, covering April 18, 2012.
Nicki Minaj
Adele
Rascal Flatts
Lionel Richie
One Direction
2012Dick Clark, American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (born 1929)[â ]
Richard Wagstaff Clark was an American television and radio personality and television producer who hosted American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989. He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from 1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which broadcast New Year's Eve celebrations in New York City's Times Square.
2012RenĂ© LĂ©pine, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1929)[â ]
René G. Lépine was a Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist. Lépine was the chairman of Groupe Lépine, a real estate development and investment firm he founded in 1953. He is widely considered one of the most influential French Canadian real estate developers of his time. His companies developed over $5 billion of real estate in Canada and the United States since the 1960s. He also owned a portfolio of multifamily and retail properties in Montreal and Ottawa. Lépine developed many buildings considered landmarks in Montreal, including the Olympic Village and Le Sanctuaire du Mont-Royal. Lépine is also credited with having developed the first condominiums in Montreal in 1981.
2012Robert O. Ragland, American musician (born 1931)[â ]
Robert Oliver Ragland was an American film score composer, best known for his soundtracks to numerous genre films ranging from blaxploitation (Abby), to horror, to monster movies, to thrillers and action films. Throughout his career, he worked with cult filmmakers including William Girdler, Menahem Golan, Larry Cohen, and J. Lee Thompson.
2012K. D. Wentworth, American author (born 1951)[â ]
Kathy Diane Wentworth, known as K. D. Wentworth, was an American science fiction author. A University of Tulsa graduate, she got her start winning the Writers of the Future Contest in 1988, and then later won Field Publications' "Teachers as Writers" Award in 1991. Wentworth served two terms as secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in the early 2000s. She served as the editor for the Writers of the Future Contest from 2009 until her death. One of her novelettes, "Kaleidoscope" (2008), and three of her short stories, "Burning Bright" (1997). "Tall One" (1998), and "Born Again" (2005) have been Nebula Award finalists. Wentworth died on April 18, 2012, from complications with pneumonia and cervical cancer.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[â ]