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Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis, accused by his critics of being publicity-seeking, has seemed to change his views on the government’s role in helping minorities.
Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller has quadrupled its page views and total audience in two years, and it announced that it became profitable this year.
Central to the effort by President Obama’s team to recover momentum is a renewed effort to win the three remaining debates, starting with Thursday’s vice-presidential face-off.
Alongside the impressive technology advances of the last two decades, many see a destructive use of software patents corrupting the marketplace for ideas.
NBC, usually protective about the process of putting together Saturday Night Live, allowed access to the show’s writers, stars and rehearsals this week as they prepared their debate sketch.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 3, 2012, covering October 8, 2012.
P!nk
Various Artists
The Killers
Dave Matthews Band
Little Big Town
2012Varsha Bhosle, Indian singer and journalist (born 1956)[†]
Varsha Bhosle was an Indian singer, journalist and writer based in Mumbai. She was the daughter of the playback singer Asha Bhosle.
2012Marilou Diaz-Abaya, Filipino director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1955)[†]
Marilou Correa Diaz-Abaya was a Filipina multi-award winning film director. She was posthumously conferred the Order of National Artists of the Philippines for Film and Broadcast Arts in 2022, she was the founder and president of the Marilou Diaz-Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo, Philippines. She was the director of the 1998 film José Rizal, a biographical film on the Philippines' national hero of the same name. She was part of the Second Golden Age of Philippine Cinema.
2012Eric Lomax, Scottish captain and author (born 1919)[†]
Eric Sutherland Lomax was a British Army officer who was sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1942. He is most notable for his book, The Railway Man, about his experiences before, during, and after World War II, which won the 1996 NCR Book Award and the PEN/Ackerley Prize.
2012Nawal Kishore Sharma, Indian politician, 20th Governor of Gujarat (born 1925)[†]
Nawal Kishore Sharma was an Indian politician, who served as Governor of Gujarat state from July 2004 to July 2009.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]