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Private equity executives, after spending the last several years largely on the sidelines amid the economic uncertainty, have begun to be anxious that they may need to go on a shopping spree.
Four young memoirists, including Steven Rinella, author of “Meat Eater,” have largely taken to hunting, they say, for ethical reasons.
Cargill sold 10 properties in Japan last week for $20 million, but a partner said the deal was improper because its management contract had two more years to go.
A bipartisan group of senators is coalescing around an ambitious three-step process to avert automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts facing the country in January.
Once ambitious American plans for ending the war in Afghanistan are now being replaced by the far more modest goal of setting the stage for Afghans to work out a deal among themselves.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 26, 2012, covering October 2, 2012.
Dave Matthews Band
Little Big Town
Bob Dylan
The Avett Brothers
The xx
2012Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Vietnamese-American poet and activist (born 1939)[†]
Nguyễn Chí Thiện was a North Vietnamese dissident, activist and poet who spent a total of twenty-seven years as a political prisoner of the communist governments of both North Vietnam and of post-1975 Vietnam, before being released and allowed to join the large Overseas Vietnamese community in the United States.
2012Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (born 1933)[†]
Charles Conliff Mende Roach was a Canadian civil rights lawyer and an activist in the Black community in Toronto.
2012J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist, theorist, academic (born 1943)[†]
John Philippe Rushton was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at the University of Western Ontario until the early 1990s, and became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for promoting anti-Black racism through his widely discredited research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and other purported racial correlations.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]