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Mississippi officials hope a publicly operated civil rights museum scheduled to open in 2017 will be a symbol that the state is reckoning with the ugliest parts of its history.
Despite avowals about the need to refocus the agency on its original missions of analysis, intelligence collecting and espionage, the paramilitary operations have proven hard to give up.
Led by DeAndre Daniels (20 points), UConn beat Florida, the N.C.A.A. tournament’s top overall seed, for a second time this season and advanced to the championship game.
Mr. Matthiessen’s nonfiction explored the remote endangered wilds of the world, and his fiction often placed his protagonists in the heart of them.
Aaron Harrison put up the shot that sent the Wildcats into the title game against Connecticut.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 2, 2014, covering April 6, 2014.
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YG
Foster the People
Skrillex
The Pretty Reckless
2014Mary Anderson, American actress (born 1918)[†]
Mary Bebe Anderson was an American actress, who appeared in 31 films and 22 television productions between 1939 and 1965. She was best known for her small supporting role in the film Gone With the Wind as well as one of the main characters in Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 film Lifeboat.
2014Jacques Castérède, French pianist and composer (born 1926)[†]
Jacques Castérède was a French composer and pianist.
2014Liv Dommersnes, Norwegian actress (born 1922)[†]
Liv Dommersnes was a Norwegian actress and reciter of poetry. She was a member of group that founded Studioteatret in 1945.
2014Mickey Rooney, American soldier, actor, and dancer (born 1920)[†]
Mickey Rooney was an American actor. In a career spanning nearly nine decades, he appeared in more than 300 films and was among the last surviving stars of the silent-film era. He was the top box-office attraction from 1939 to 1941, and one of the best-paid actors of that era. At the height of a career ultimately marked by declines and comebacks, Rooney performed the role of Andy Hardy in a series of 16 films in the 1930s and 1940s that epitomized the mainstream United States self-image.
2014Chuck Stone, American soldier, journalist, and academic (born 1924)[†]
Charles Sumner "Chuck" Stone, Jr. was an American pilot, newspaper editor, journalism professor, and author. He was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II and was the first president of the National Association of Black Journalists, serving from 1975 to 1977. Passionate about racial issues and supportive of many liberal causes, he refused to follow any party line, "but called the issues as he saw them."
2014Massimo Tamburini, Italian motorcycle designer, co-founded Bimota (born 1943)[†]
Massimo Tamburini was an Italian motorcycle designer for Cagiva, Ducati, and MV Agusta, and one of the founders of Bimota. Tamburini's designs are iconic in their field, with one critic calling him the "Michelangelo of motorbike design". His Ducati 916 and MV Agusta F4 were included in the Guggenheim Museum's The Art of the Motorcycle exhibit of 1998–1999.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]