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An independent audit failed to give speedy relief to homeowners, but housing advocates are worried that banks will take shortcuts when they do it themselves.
âIt wasnât one thing, but a whole combination of themâ that caused Pope Benedict XVI to resign, an expert said. Scandals have battered the papacy relentlessly.
âAll in the Timing,â a series of sketches by David Ives, focuses on language and time.
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey has embraced his job with new vigor, even as Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, has said that he will seek the seat.
The Netherlands has held back the sea for centuries; now it is letting it in, as the Dutch realize they are facing a losing battle.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 13, 2013, covering February 13, 2013.
Justin Bieber
Andrea Bocelli
Tegan and Sara
Charlie Wilson
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2013Gerry Day, American journalist and screenwriter (born 1922)[â ]
Gerry Day was an American screenwriter. She was also a newspaper reporter for the Hollywood Citizen News in the mid-1940s.
2013Miles J. Jones, American pathologist and physician (born 1952)[â ]
Miles James Alfred Jones, Jr., M.D. was a forensic pathologist who became one of the most notorious physician-abusers of internet-mediated services. He was also cited for contempt of the U.S. Congress for failure to appear before it concerning his activities in the sale of fetal body parts. He was eventually imprisoned in the Federal Corrections System for failure to pay U.S. income taxes for two years.
2013Pieter Kooijmans, Dutch judge and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for The Netherlands (born 1933)[â ]
Pieter Hendrik "Peter" Kooijmans was a Dutch politician, jurist, and diplomat. He was a member of the defunct Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), which later merged into the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party. From 1993 to 1994, he served as Foreign Minister of the Netherlands, succeeding Hans van den Broek. In 1995, he returned to his former position as Professor of Public International Law at the University of Leiden, serving until his appointment to the International Court of Justice. He was granted the honorary title of Minister of State on 13 July 2007.
2013AndrĂ©e Malebranche, Haitian artist (born 1916)[â ]
Andrée Malebranche was an Afro-Haitian painter and art instructor. She has works included in the collections of the Musée d'Art Haïtien and was recognized by the Haitian government for her contributions to the development of Haitian painting.
2013Yuko Tojo, Japanese activist and politician (born 1939)[â ]
Yuko Tojo was a Japanese ultra-nationalist politician, Imperial Japanese apologist, and brief political hopeful. She was the granddaughter of General Hideki Tojo, the Japanese wartime prime minister who was convicted as a Class A war criminal and hanged after World War II in 1948.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]