Wall St. Debates Who Should Pay Legal Bills
By Andrew Ross Sorkin
Legal troubles on Wall Street lead to a question: who pays the legal fees for the accused?
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On this day
August 13, 2013
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Arms Shipments Seen From Sudan to Syria Rebels
By C. J. Chivers and Eric Schmitt
Syrian rebels have found an unlikely source for arms in Sudan, whose government sold the weapons to Qatar, which arranged delivery through Turkey, Western officials and the rebels said.
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A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law
By Robert Pear
The Obama administration has put off another provision — on deductibles and co-payments — until 2015.
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Two Powerful Signals of a Major Shift on Crime
By Charlie Savage and Erica Goode
A move to curb mandatory minimum sentences and a ruling that stop-and-frisk practices in New York were unconstitutional represented a swing away from the tough-on-crime policies of a generation ago.
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Shakespearean Mood Swings in Progress
By Ben Brantley
Alex Timbers’s romping adaptation of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” is part of Shakespeare in the Park.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 7, 2013, covering August 13, 2013.
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Stars Dance
Selena Gomez
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Magna Carta... Holy Grail
Jay-Z
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Teen Beach Movie
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Kidz Bop 24
Kidz Bop Kids
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Notable Deaths
2013Lothar Bisky, German politician (born 1941)[†]
Lothar Bisky was a German politician. He was the chairman of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), the successor of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party (SED). In June 2007, he became co-chairman of The Left party, formed by a merger of the PDS and the much smaller Labour and Social Justice – The Electoral Alternative. From 2007 until 2010, he was the President of the Party of the European Left. Also, he was the Publisher of the socialist newspaper Neues Deutschland.
2013Aaron Selber, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (born 1927)[†]
Aaron Rosenbaum Selber Jr. was an American businessman, the last president of the former Selber Bros. department store chain, and a philanthropist from Shreveport, the largest city in the northern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
2013Jean Vincent, French footballer and manager (born 1930)[†]
Jean Vincent was a French international footballer and manager who played as a left winger.
Historical Context for August 13, 2013
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]