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After years of marketing plans to employers, not individual consumers, health insurers are making radical changes because of the Affordable Care Act.
Some obstacles may have been overcome, but reform will probably be opposed by those who will view it as a potentially large expansion of welfare.
The law firm’s move to get out of the estate-planning business comes as the legal industry continues to emphasize more profitable practices.
The chief architect of a clandestine campaign of targeted killings, John O. Brennan, will face a Senate confirmation hearing as President Obama’s nominee for C.I.A. director.
For Broadway producers, a Hollywood star can be the key to financing a Broadway revival, and to turning a profit.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 6, 2013, covering February 6, 2013.
Gary Allan
The Lumineers
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Various Artists
Kidz Bop Kids
2013Chokri Belaid, Tunisian lawyer and politician (born 1964)[†]
Chokri Belaïd, also transliterated as Shokri Belaïd, was a Tunisian politician and lawyer who was an opposition leader with the left-secular Democratic Patriots' Movement. Belaïd was a vocal critic of the Ben Ali regime prior to the 2011 Tunisian revolution and of the then Islamist-led Tunisian government. On 6 February 2013, he was fatally shot outside his house in El Menzah, close to the Tunisian capital, Tunis. As a result of his assassination, Tunisian Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali announced his plan to dissolve the existing national government and to form a temporary "national unity" government.
2013Menachem Elon, German-Israeli academic and jurist (born 1923)[†]
Menachem Elon was an Israeli jurist and Professor of Law specializing in traditional Jewish Law, an Orthodox rabbi, and a prolific author on traditional Jewish law (Halakha). He was the head of the Jewish Law Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He lost the 1983 Israeli Presidential Election to Chaim Herzog.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]