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The issues troubling Mozilla, a highly unusual tech titan, run deeper than the firestorm that led to the departure of its chief, Brendan Eich, after only two weeks.
Andrew and Aaron Harrison have been praised for their talent and criticized for their demeanors, but they have found their footing recently with the Wildcats.
Highlights from Saturdayâs N.C.A.A. menâs tournament games.
After giving up a home run in the first inning, Masahiro Tanaka found his rhythm and helped the Yankees to a 7-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays.
The election will mark the first time Afghans have changed their leader at the polls in modern history as Hamid Karzaiâs dozen years in power end.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 2, 2014, covering April 5, 2014.
Soundtrack
YG
Foster the People
Skrillex
The Pretty Reckless
2014Alan Davie, Scottish saxophonist and painter (born 1920)[â ]
James Alan Davie was a Scottish painter and musician.
2014Mariano DĂaz, Spanish cyclist (born 1939)[â ]
Mariano DĂaz DĂaz was a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. In 1967, he won a stage of the 1967 Vuelta a España, and also won the mountains classification. He also competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
2014Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (born 1927)[â ]
Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction and fiction. He was also a prominent environmental activist.
2014John Pinette, American comedian (born 1964)[â ]
John Paul Pinette was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and Broadway performer. He toured the comedy club circuit beginning in the 1980s and appeared in cinema and on television. Besides stand-up Pinette did various impressions, among them Michael Jackson, The Chipmunks, Elvis Presley, Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, Hervé Villechaize, an Ewok, actor Marlon Brando, as well as a range of regional accents. He occasionally sang in his stand-up routines, working in songs such as "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz, "Will You Be There" from Free Willy, and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".
2014JosĂ© Wilker, Brazilian actor, director, and producer (born 1947)[â ]
José Wilker Almeida was a Brazilian film, stage, and television actor and director. The actor gained fame in telenovelas like Roque Santeiro (1985), but became known internationally for his role as Vadinho, the husband who returns from the dead to tempt SÎnia Braga's character in the movie Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976).
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]