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To reach the multitude of online services competing for your attention, you must first get through a bottleneck that is not competitive at all: high-speed broadband access.
The outrage is gone. Today, it’s rare to hear a complaint about shows like “Modern Family” or the drama “Smash,” which has five gay characters.
Days of drama preceded the agreement between the United States and China in the case of Chen Guangcheng, but the negotiations ultimately reflected a maturing relationship, officials said.
The reunited Beach Boys performed songs old and new at the Beacon Theater on Tuesday night.
In an emotional finale, Jermaine Paul, a former backup singer for Alicia Keys who worked with Blake Shelton on the show, wept openly and embraced his father and his wife.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 9, 2012, covering May 9, 2012.
Jack White
Adele
Lionel Richie
One Direction
Lee Brice
2012Bertram Cohler, American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic (born 1938)[†]
Bertram Joseph Cohler was an American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and educator primarily associated with the University of Chicago, the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Harvard University. He advocated a life course approach to understanding human experience and subjectivity, drawing on insights from psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, personology, psychological anthropology, narrative studies, and the interdisciplinary field of human development. Cohler authored or co-authored over 200 articles and books. He contributed to numerous scholarly fields, including the study of adversity, resilience and coping; mental illness and treatment; family and social relations in normal development and mental illness; and the study of personal narrative in social and historical context. He made particular contributions to the study of sexual identity over the life course, to the psychoanalytic understanding of homosexuality., and to the study of personal narratives of Holocaust survivors. Other than his graduate study at Harvard, Cohler spent his career at the University of Chicago and affiliated institutions, where he was repeatedly recognized as an educator and a builder of bridges across disciplines. He was treated for esophageal cancer in 2011, but became ill from a related pneumonia and died on 9 May 2012 not far from his home in Hyde Park, Chicago.
2012Geoffrey Henry, Cook Islander lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (born 1940)[†]
Sir Geoffrey Arama Henry was a Cook Island politician who was twice the Prime Minister of the Cook Islands. He was leader of the Cook Islands Party (CIP) from 1979 to 2006.
2012Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (born 1928)[†]
Vidal Sassoon was a British hairstylist and businessman. He was noted for repopularising a simple, close-cut geometric hairstyle called the five-point cut, worn by famous fashion designers including Mary Quant and film stars such as Mia Farrow, Goldie Hawn, Cameron Diaz, Nastassja Kinski and Helen Mirren.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]