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The performance of gestures, services and kind acts has quite likely been a driving force of life in New York at least since the days of the New Amsterdam colony. But we roll now in ways the Dutch could not have foreseen.
Scrambling to tamp down consumer outrage over the theft of credit and debit card data, Target announced it would offer a 10 percent discount at its stores this weekend.
The Nets plan to move their basketball operations to Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a final step in their move out of New Jersey.
Civilian protesters and armed groups have chased militias from Tripoli and Benghazi for the first time since the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2011.
While the Affordable Care Act clearly benefits those at the low and high ends of the income scale, many middle-class Americans don’t qualify for health care subsidies, and are facing steep premium prices.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 18, 2013, covering December 21, 2013.
Garth Brooks
One Direction
Kelly Clarkson
Britney Spears
The Robertsons
2013Edgar Bronfman Sr., Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1929)[†]
Edgar Miles Bronfman was a Canadian-American businessman. He worked for his family's distilled beverage firm, Seagram, eventually becoming president, treasurer and CEO. As president of the World Jewish Congress, Bronfman is especially remembered for initiating diplomacy with the Soviet Union, which resulted in legitimizing the Hebrew language in the USSR, and contributed to Soviet Jews being legally able to practice their religion, as well as immigrate to Israel.
2013John Eisenhower, American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th United States Ambassador to Belgium (born 1922)[†]
John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower was a United States Army officer, diplomat, and military historian. He was the second son of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. His military career spanned from before, during, and after his father's presidency, and he left active duty in 1963 and then retired in 1974. From 1969 to 1971, Eisenhower served as United States Ambassador to Belgium during the administration of President Richard Nixon, who was previously his father's vice president and also father-in-law to Eisenhower's son David.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]