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Because of term limits, Tom Sherak, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is leaving a post that has emerged as one of the few bully pulpits in the film business.
In a city where not much of anything works, The Times-Picayune does, and nothing got print romanticists more dewy-eyed than the announcement of its reduced schedule.
Faculty at the United States Military Academy are debating what a counterinsurgency strategy achieved in Iraq and Afghanistan and whether the doctrine has a future.
Public pension funds in the United States are struggling to lower their assumed rates of return, which are criticized as too lofty in the current market environment.
As the number of species at risk of extinction soars, zoos are being called upon to rescue and sustain some animals in favor of others.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 23, 2012, covering May 28, 2012.
Carrie Underwood
Adele
Lionel Richie
Various Artists
Norah Jones
2012The Arkankergen massacre in Kazakhstan's Alakol District kills 15 people.[†]
The Arkankergen massacre occurred on 28 May 2012 in the Arkankergen military post in the Alakol District of Kazakhstan on the border with China, near the village of Usharal. Fifteen people were killed. A border guard, Vladislav Chelakh, initially confessed to the deed, but later retracted his confession.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]