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More than a year after the death of their director, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco endure staff departures and complaints about the board president.
Lawmakers took aim at JPMorgan Chase for misleading investors and regulators about a disastrous bet, building off a scathing 300-page Congressional report released on Thursday.
Benjamin J. Rhodes is a 35-year-old deputy national security adviser with a soft voice, strong opinions and a reputation as the man who channels President Obama on foreign policy.
New York Road Runners, which was criticized over its handling of the canceled New York City Marathon, has had fewer finishers at its races this year.
During the Celtic Tiger boom, snakes became a popular pet among the Irish nouveau riche. But after the bubble burst, many owners abandoned the pets they could no longer afford.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 13, 2013, covering March 16, 2013.
Bruno Mars
Atoms For Peace
Mumford & Sons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Hillsong United
2013Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (born 1939)[†]
Jamal Nazrul Islam FRAS was a Bangladeshi mathematical physicist and cosmologist. He was a professor at University of Chittagong, served as a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and member of the syndicate at Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology until his death. He also served as the director of the Research Center for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (RCMPS) at the University of Chittagong. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2000 by the Government of Bangladesh.
2013José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist and politician, Minister of Economy of Argentina (born 1925)[†]
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz was an Argentine lawyer, businessman, and economist. He was the Minister of Economy of Argentina during the country's last military dictatorship (1976—1983), and shaped the economic policy of the dictatorship until its end.
2013Yadier Pedroso, Cuban pitcher (born 1986)[†]
Yadier Pedroso González, born in Guanajay, Havana Province, Cuba, was a right-handed pitcher for the Cuban national baseball team and La Habana of the Cuban National Series. Pedroso was part of the Cuban team at the 2006 and 2013 World Baseball Classics.
2013Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (born 1914)[†]
Ruchoma Shain (Hebrew: רוחומה שיין; 6 December 1914 – 16 March 2013) was an American-born rebbetzin, English teacher, and author. She is best known for her first book, All for the Boss (1984), a biography of her father, Yaakov Yosef Herman, which she wrote in her late sixties. In detailing her father's life, she also describes Orthodox Jewish life in America in the early 1900s. All for the Boss became one of the all-time best-sellers for Feldheim Publishers, and Shain's stories and observations are quoted by numerous authors.
2013Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (born 1952)[†]
Marina Solodkin was an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah, Likud and Kadima.
2013Frank Thornton, English actor (born 1921)[†]
Frank Thornton Ball, professionally known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor. He was best known for playing Captain Peacock in the TV sitcom Are You Being Served? and its sequel Grace & Favour and as Herbert "Truly" Truelove in TV sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]