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The S.E.C. celebrated Friday’s settlement with SAC Capital Advisors, but both the fund and its rivals saw the $616 million fine as a good price for peace in the insider trading case.
As lawmakers struggle to narrow the government’s deficit, every dollar taken from a grant program counts as a budget cut, while every dollar taken from a tax credit is instead a tax increase.
Western and African officials are increasingly concerned that the soldiers expected to continue the campaign against militants lack proper training and equipment.
The investigation of The Wall Street Journal coincides with a broader search the government is conducting of News Corporation over a phone-hacking scandal in 2011.
Starved for cash, some agencies are offering their desirable land to the best bidder, who will build new, modern libraries or schools in the base of new developments.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 13, 2013, covering March 18, 2013.
Bruno Mars
Atoms For Peace
Mumford & Sons
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Hillsong United
2013Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (born 1935)[†]
Muhammad Mahmood Alam, popularly known as M. M. Alam, was a Pakistani fighter pilot and flying ace of the Pakistan Air Force. He is officially credited with having downed five Indian fighter aircraft in less than a minute during the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War.
2013Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (born 1947)[†]
Alfred Henry Bromell was an American novelist, screenwriter, and director.
2013Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (born 1938)[†]
Clarence V. Ford, known as Clay Ford, was an attorney and Republican politician from Gulf Breeze in Santa Rosa County near Pensacola, Florida, who, from 2007 until his death, represented District 2 in the Florida House of Representatives.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]