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Lawyers have agreed to settle a lawsuit against the company’s directors over its purchase of Merrill Lynch for $20 million, even though damages could reach $5 billion, according to plaintiffs of a parallel suit in Delaware.
The traditional big sources of campaign funds are not delivering for President Obama’s campaign as they did four years ago, leaving the president to rely much more on grass-roots support.
Staples like milk, meat and toilet paper can be hard to find in Venezuela, and many blame the government’s price-control policies.
Jeremy Bernard, the White House social secretary, has played a crucial but largely silent role managing some of the biggest, showiest parties in its history.
For all the “improvements” in recent years, Fenway Park, and the Fenway experience, are essentially unchanged from 1912. Particularly those glorious home runs to left.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 18, 2012, covering April 21, 2012.
Nicki Minaj
Adele
Rascal Flatts
Lionel Richie
One Direction
2012Doris Betts, American author and academic (born 1932)[†]
Doris Betts was a short story writer, novelist, essayist and Alumni Distinguished Professor Emerita at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She was the author of three short story collections and six novels.
2012Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, killing one person and injuring 116 others.[†]
On 21 April 2012 at 18:30 local time, two trains were involved in a head-on collision at Westerpark, near Sloterdijk, in the west of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Approximately 117 people were injured, one of whom later died in hospital. The collision is thought to have been caused by the driver of one of the trains passing a red signal.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]