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A class-action suit by Silicon Valley engineers against companies including Google, Apple and Intel has revealed details of an agreement among them not to cold-call one another’s employees.
A dispute over Israel at The New Republic has spilled out of the newsroom and into the public realm, leading to questions over the magazine’s new editorial stance.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s appointees are like-minded advocates rather than the button-down businessmen favored by former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
Ryan Harrow of Georgia State and Trae Golden of Georgia Tech might end up being among the last players granted exceptions to an N.C.A.A. rule that prevents transfers from playing right away.
While the middle and upper classes have dug in against President Nicolás Maduro’s government, the poor have in large part stayed away.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 26, 2014, covering March 1, 2014.
Eric Church
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Various Artists
Beyonce
Bruno Mars
2014Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1922)[†]
Alain Resnais was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct short films including Night and Fog (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.
2014Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.[†]
On 1 March 2014, a group of 5 knife-wielding terrorists attacked passengers in the Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, Yunnan, China, killing 31 people, and wounding 143 others. The attackers pulled out long-bladed knives and stabbed and slashed passengers at random. Four assailants were shot to death by police on the spot and one injured perpetrator was captured. Police announced on 3 March that the six-man, two-woman group had been neutralized after the arrest of three remaining suspects.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]