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Companies that shuffle large stores of commodities to benefit from higher prices are being asked to retain documents related to the practice.
Why did Mr. Cohen pay more than half a billion dollars to settle a case that now appears far from settled?
Age discrimination complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have risen and a method for calculating age discrimination in the workplace and elsewhere remains elusive.
Robert S. Khuzami is following the quintessential Washington script: an influential government insider becoming a paid advocate for industries he once policed.
From bus fare to rent, the price of living in Brazil keeps rising, and the push-back against increases has escalated from shopping abroad for cheaper goods to staging protests.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 17, 2013, covering July 23, 2013.
J. Cole
Wale
Kanye West
Imagine Dragons
Florida Georgia Line
2013Rona Anderson, Scottish actress (born 1926)[†]
Rona Anderson was a Scottish stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in TV series and on the stage and films throughout the 1950s. She appeared in the films Scrooge and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and on TV in Dr Finlay's Casebook and Dixon of Dock Green.
2013Pauline Clarke, English author (born 1921)[†]
Pauline Clarke was an English author who wrote for younger children under the name Helen Clare, for older children as Pauline Clarke, and later for adults under her married name Pauline Hunter Blair. Her best-known work is The Twelve and the Genii, a low fantasy children's novel published by Faber in 1962, for which she won the 1962 Carnegie Medal, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and the 1968 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis.
2013Arthur J. Collingsworth, American diplomat (born 1944)[†]
Arthur J. Collingsworth was an American United Nations official, international student exchange executive, consultant on international fund raising and real estate investor. He lived in the United States, Japan, United Kingdom, Czech Republic and Germany.
2013Dominguinhos, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (born 1941)[†]
José Domingos de Morais, better known as Dominguinhos, was a Brazilian composer, accordionist and singer. His principal musical influences were the music of Luiz Gonzaga, Forró and in general the music of the Sertão in the Brazilian Northeast. He further developed this typical Brazilian musical style, born out of the European, African and Indian influences in north-eastern Brazil, creating a unique style of Brazilian Popular Music.
2013Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer (born 1938)[†]
Emile Alphonse Griffith was an American professional boxer who won world titles in three weight divisions. He held the world light middleweight, undisputed welterweight, and middleweight titles. His best-known contest was a 1962 title match with Benny Paret. Griffith won the bout by knockout; Paret never recovered consciousness and died in the hospital 10 days later.
2013Kim Jong-hak, South Korean director and producer (born 1951)[†]
Kim Jong-hak was a South Korean television director and producer, best known for the seminal and highly rated Korean dramas Eyes of Dawn (1991) and Sandglass (1995). After financial losses incurred by the big-budget fantasy series The Legend (2007) and Faith (2012), Kim was under investigation when he committed suicide in 2013.
2013Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (born 1929)[†]
Djalma Pereira Dias dos Santos, known simply as Djalma Santos was a Brazilian footballer who starred for the Brazil national team in four World Cups and winning the 1958 and 1962 editions. Santos is considered to be one of the greatest right-backs of all time. While primarily known for his defensive skills, he often ventured upfield and displayed some impressive technical and attacking skills.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]