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President Obama has come to feel the constraints on his power acutely. He is set to announce executive actions on the environment and the economy that do not need the approval of Congress.
Residents of Casselton, N.D., are concerned about the crude-oil convoys that roll through their town, as what was once a stopgap becomes commonplace and safety standards lag.
The book âAnd Every Single One Was Someoneâ â meant as a kind of coffee-table monument or conversation starter â consists of the single word âJew,â printed six million times.
In âAll Joy and No Fun,â Jennifer Senior looks at overscheduling and other tendencies in contemporary middle-class child rearing.
Actorsâ Equity members are organizing against a touring system for Broadway shows that treats and pays some members handsomely and others far less so.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 22, 2014, covering January 26, 2014.
Soundtrack
Beyonce
Kid Ink
Eminem
Lorde
2014Tom Gola, American basketball player, coach, and politician (born 1933)[â ]
Thomas Joseph Gola was an American basketball player and politician. He is widely considered one of the greatest NCAA basketball players of all time. Gola was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1976. He led his high school team to the Philadelphia Catholic League championship, his college team to the National Invitation Tournament championship and the NCAA championship, and was on the Philadelphia Warriors 1956 championship team, all in the space of six years.
2014Paula Gruden, Slovenian-Australian poet and translator (born 1921)[â ]
Paula Gruden or Pavla Gruden was an Australian poet, translator, and editor of Slovene descent.
2014JosĂ© Emilio Pacheco, Mexican poet and author (born 1939)[â ]
José Emilio Pacheco Berny was a Mexican poet, essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century. The Berlin International Literature Festival has praised him as "one of the most significant contemporary Latin American poets". In 2009 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize for his literary oeuvre.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]