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A former analyst at SAC Capital Advisors, the hedge fund owned by the billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen, has given federal agents the names of about 20 people he said had engaged in insider trading, according to a court filing.
An online banking start-up company called Simple offers free checking accounts and digital tools to people frustrated with typical banks.
Peace has eased safety concerns in Helmand Province, but there is little faith in the Afghan governmentâs ability to maintain the security gains won by American and British troops.
The skill required to execute the attacks convinced American officials that Iran was behind them, likely in retaliation for economic sanctions and online attacks by the United States.
âWater by the Spoonful,â the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara AlegrĂa Hudes, at the Second Stage Theater, is a moving collage of lives in crisis.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 9, 2013, covering January 9, 2013.
Taylor Swift
Soundtrack
One Direction
Bruno Mars
T.I.
2013Brigitte Askonas, Austrian-English immunologist and academic (born 1923)[â ]
Brigitte Alice Askonas was a British immunologist and a visiting professor at Imperial College London from 1995.
2013James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919)[â ]
James McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory originally outlined in his most famous work, The Calculus of Consent, co-authored with Gordon Tullock in 1962. He continued to develop the theory, eventually receiving the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1986. Buchanan's work initiated research on how politicians' and bureaucrats' self-interest, utility maximization, and other non-wealth-maximizing considerations affect their decision-making. He was a member of the Board of Advisors of The Independent Institute as well as of the Institute of Economic Affairs, a member of the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) and MPS president from 1984 to 1986, a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute, and professor at George Mason University.
2013Robert L. Rock, American businessman and politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (born 1927)[â ]
Robert L. Rock was an American politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of Indiana from 1965 to 1969 and as the Mayor of Anderson, Indiana, from 1972 to 1980. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Indiana in 1968, but lost to Republican Edgar Whitcomb.
2013John Wise, Canadian farmer and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Agriculture (born 1935)[â ]
John Wise was a Canadian politician from Ontario.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]