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Five regulatory agencies are to vote Tuesday on the rule, which has met with thinly veiled threats of challenges from banks and business trade groups.
China and Britain both underscore how transparency, however painful in the moment, allows democracy, business and the citizenry to thrive in the long run.
This seasonâs national championship game between Auburn and Florida State was created without controversy as the Bowl Championship Series nears its end.
Three Democrats facing tough re-election fights next year are essentially all that stand between Republicans and complete control of the old Confederacyâs Senate delegation.
Alessandri Ferri and Herman Cornejo play lovers of very different ages in âChĂŠri,â a dramatically muted but gorgeously danced new work from the choreographer Martha Clarke.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 4, 2013, covering December 9, 2013.
Eminem
Five Finger Death Punch
Various Artists
The Robertsons
Soundtrack
2013Hristu Cândroveanu, Romanian editor, literary critic and writer (born 1928)[â ]
Hristu Cândroveanu was a Romanian editor, literary critic, poet, prose writer and translator of Aromanian ethnicity. He published several works related to the Aromanians, led several Aromanian magazines and was involved in some Aromanian organizations.
2013John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (born 1909)[â ]
John Gordon Gabbert was an American judge. He was associate justice of the California Courts of Appeal appointed by Governor Ronald Reagan in May 1970. Before that, he was a Superior Court judge for Riverside County, California.
2013Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist and educator (born 1930)[â ]
Barbara Stella Hesse-Bukowska was a Polish pianist. Her family had a long-standing musical history, as her father was a violinist and conductor, her mother was a pianist and teacher, and her grandfather was a piano tuner. Her mother was her first teacher. Her subsequent teachers included CzesĹaw AnioĹkiewicz and, at the Warsaw Conservatory, Maria GliĹska-WÄ sowska.
2013Eleanor Parker, American actress (born 1922)[â ]
Eleanor Jean Parker was an American actress. She was nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in the films Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951), and Interrupted Melody (1955), the first of which won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. She was also known for her roles in the films Of Human Bondage (1946), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Jungle (1954), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), A Hole in the Head (1959), The Sound of Music (1965), and The Oscar (1966).
2013John Wilbur, American football player (born 1943)[â ]
John Leonard Wilbur was a professional American football offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Rams and Washington Redskins. He also was a member of The Hawaiians in the World Football League (WFL). He played college football at Stanford University.
2013At least seven are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near Bintaro, Indonesia.[â ]
The 2013 Bintaro rail crash occurred on 9 December 2013 when a KRL Commuterline train crashed into a Pertamina gasoline tanker at a railroad crossing in Bintaro, Jakarta, Indonesia on Monday morning, causing at least one female-only carriage to overturn and burst into flames. At least 7 people were killed and another 63 were wounded in the crash.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[â ]