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Autonomy’s founder, Mike Lynch, says he was blindsided by a public relations onslaught from Hewlett-Packard, little of which had to do with the substance of H.P.’s fraud claims about his company.
Journalists who dig into dangerous corners of the world have grown accustomed to being threatened, but now some governments have decided shooting the messenger is a viable option.
How Nakoula Basseley Nakoula came to make “Innocence of Muslims” is a bizarre tale of fake personas and subterfuge.
Sooner or later, the Knicks of New York and the Nets of Brooklyn will do something worth chanting about.
Mathew Martoma’s arrest signals the first time that prosecutors have linked Steven A. Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital Advisors, to possibly illegal trading activity.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 21, 2012, covering November 26, 2012.
Taylor Swift
Various Artists
Rod Stewart
Ne-Yo
Aerosmith
2012Celso Advento Castillo, Filipino actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1943)[†]
Celso Adolfo Castillo was a Filipino film director and screenwriter. He was known as the Messiah of Philippine Cinema for directing films that broke new ground in Philippine cinema, including Asedillo, Patayin Mo sa Sindak si Barbara, and Burlesk Queen, among others. Castillo was a prolific director who made 64 films throughout his life, casting actors like Fernando Poe Jr., Vilma Santos, and Maria Isabel Lopez.
2012Peter Marsh, Australian table tennis player (born 1948)[†]
Peter James Marsh was an Australian Paralympic athlete and table tennis player who competed at three Paralympic Games and won two bronze medals.
2012Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)[†]
Joseph Edward Murray was an American plastic surgeon who is known as the "father of transplantation" for major milestones in the field of transplantation, including performing the first successful human kidney transplant, defining brain death, organizing the first international conference on human kidney transplants, and founding the National Kidney Registry, the forerunner of the current United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS). As of 2013, more than one million patients were estimated to have benefitted from organ transplantation around the world.
2012M. C. Nambudiripad, Indian author and translator (born 1919)[†]
Moothiringode Chithrabhanu Nambudiripad was a pioneer of popular science writing in Malayalam language and an eminent translator. He was one of the founders of popular science movement in Kerala State, India. He was conferred several awards for his writing and translation, and for contribution to society.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]