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With the election just weeks away, Democratic “super PACs” are finally getting the kind of wealthy donors who have made Republican outside groups a pivotal force in the campaign.
For the rebels, managing to deny the use of an important airfield has undermined the government’s ability to exert its full authority in some parts of the country.
The purchase of the New Jersey Nets in 2004 gave Bruce C. Ratner the leverage he needed to pull off his Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn, a real estate megadeal.
The bitter citizens of a small English town are the focus in “The Casual Vacancy,” J. K. Rowling’s new novel for adults.
Wade Guyton, who creates art on computers, is the subject of a midcareer survey at the Whitney Museum.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 26, 2012, covering September 27, 2012.
Dave Matthews Band
Little Big Town
Bob Dylan
The Avett Brothers
The xx
2012Eddie Bert, American trombonist (born 1922)[†]
Edward Joseph Bertolatus, also known as Eddie Bert, was an American jazz trombonist.
2012Herbert Lom, Czech-English actor (born 1917)[†]
Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, known professionally as Herbert Lom, was a Czech-British actor with a career spanning over 60 years. His cool demeanour and precise, elegant elocution saw him cast as criminals or suave villains in his younger years, and professional men and nobles as he aged. Highly versatile, he also played the beleaguered Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in seven Pink Panther films.
2012In Minneapolis, a gunman shoots seven citizens, killing five and then himself.[†]
A mass shooting occurred at a firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, on the afternoon of September 27, 2012. The attack took place inside Accent Signage Systems, where a former employee walked into the firm's building and fired a Glock 19 pistol. By the end of the day, five people were dead, including the gunman who committed suicide, and four others were injured, three of them critically. One of those critically injured died the following day, and another man succumbed to his wounds on October 10. It was the deadliest workplace shooting in Minnesota's history.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]