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Mr. Keller, an Op-Ed columnist who was executive editor of The Times from 2003 to 2011, will be editor in chief of The Marshall Project, a nonprofit journalism start-up focused on the criminal justice system.
The all-American defensive end at the University of Missouri said he decided to come out publicly now because he sensed that rumors were circulating.
With Michael Sam’s declaration that he is gay, there is no better moment than now to plow ahead and topple a wall of discrimination.
The campaign against increasing the minimum wage illustrates how interest groups — conservative and liberal — are working in opaque ways to shape hot-button political debates.
Start-ups and much larger companies are taking increasing advantage of a 2012 law that allows them to file for public offerings while slowing the release of financial information.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 5, 2014, covering February 10, 2014.
Soundtrack
Various Artists
A Great Big World
Beyonce
Lorde
2014Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (born 1932)[†]
Stuart Henry McPhail Hall was a Jamaican-born British Marxist sociologist, cultural theorist, and political activist. Hall – along with Richard Hoggart and Raymond Williams – was one of the founding figures of the school of thought known as British Cultural Studies or the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies.
2014Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat (born 1928)[†]
Shirley Temple Black was an American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat, who was Hollywood's number-one box-office draw as a child actress from 1934 to 1938. Later, she was named United States Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]