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Yulia V. Tymoshenko, recently released from prison, has emerged as a pivotal, if not beloved, figure in a nation that finds itself directly astride the East-West divide.
Some lawyers wonder whether the district attorney agreed to any sweetheart deals with the seven unnamed cooperators who might have avoided jail, or pleaded to a lesser charge instead of a felony.
A man’s deportation case previews the difficulties President Obama will face in a review he ordered last week, asking the Homeland Security secretary to come up with a more “humane” policy.
A production by the British band the xx, in residence at the Park Avenue Armory through March 29, is as much an art installation as it is a concert.
Comments from the chairman of Bloomberg L.P. represent the starkest acknowledgment yet by a senior Bloomberg executive that the ambitions of the news division should be assessed in the context of the business operation.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 19, 2014, covering March 20, 2014.
Rick Ross
Pharrell Williams
Soundtrack
Lea Michele
Eli Young Band
2014Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author, and academic (born 1934)[†]
Hennie Aucamp was a South African Afrikaans poet, short story writer, cabaretist and academic. He grew up on a farm in the Stormberg highlands and matriculated at Jamestown, Eastern Cape before continuing his higher education at the University of Stellenbosch. He died in Cape Town at age 80 on 20 March 2014 after suffering a stroke.
2014Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (born 1930)[†]
Hilderaldo Luiz Bellini was a Brazilian footballer of Italian origin who played as a defender and was known in Brazil as one of the nation's greatest central defenders ever.
2014Tonie Nathan, American politician (born 1923)[†]
Theodora Nathalia "Tonie" Nathan was an American radio producer, television producer, and political activist. She was the first woman to receive an electoral vote in a United States presidential election. She was the 1972 vice presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party and running mate of John Hospers, when Roger MacBride, a Republican elector from Virginia, cast the historic vote as a faithless elector.
2014Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and author (born 1915)[†]
Khushwant Singh FKC was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician. His experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write Train to Pakistan in 1956, which became his most well-known novel.
2014Four suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people.[†]
The Taliban, which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan political and militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism. It ruled approximately 75% of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, before it was overthrown by an American invasion after the September 11 attacks carried out by the Taliban's ally al-Qaeda. The Taliban recaptured Kabul in August 2021 following the departure of coalition forces, after 20 years of Taliban insurgency, and now controls the entire country. The Taliban government is not recognized by any country and has been condemned for restricting human rights, including women's rights to work and have an education.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]