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Valeant’s chief, J. Michael Pearson, has slimmed down the pharmaceuticals company, but been an aggressive acquirer, spending more than $19 billion on companies.
As soon as a National Labor Relations Board official ruled that scholarship football players had the right to unionize, the university began a wide-ranging campaign to defeat a vote.
In “Casa Valentina,” Harvey Fierstein’s new play on Broadway, men gather in a Catskills resort to free their feminine side.
For now, Cliven Bundy appears to have won his standoff with the federal government over cattle grazing in Nevada. But if the authorities have moved on, Mr. Bundy has not.
While it is unclear whether the F.B.I. ordered the attacks by Hector Xavier Monsegur, the agency may have used hackers to gather intelligence even as investigators were trying to dismantle hacking groups.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 23, 2014, covering April 24, 2014.
Soundtrack
Pharrell Williams
5 Seconds of Summer
MercyMe
Black Label Society
2014Hans Hollein, Austrian architect, designed Haas House (born 1934)[†]
Hans Hollein was an Austrian architect and designer and key figure of postmodern architecture. Some of his most notable works are the Haas House and the Albertina extension in the inner city of Vienna.
2014Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer and manager (born 1948)[†]
William "Sandy" Pullar Jardine was a Scottish professional footballer who played for Rangers, Hearts and represented Scotland. He played over 1000 professional games and twice won the Scottish Football Writers Association Player of the Year award. He won several honours with Rangers, including two domestic trebles in 1976 and 1978, and was part of the Rangers team that won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1972. He won 38 caps for Scotland and played in the 1974 and 1978 World Cups. Jardine was also co-manager of Hearts with Alex MacDonald and later worked for Rangers.
2014Shobha Nagi Reddy, Indian politician (born 1968)[†]
Bhuma Shobha Nagi Reddy was an Indian politician from Andhra Pradesh, India. She represented the Allagadda constituency in the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh for four terms until 2012 when she resigned due to political turmoil in her party. She served as the chairperson of Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) and was the spokesperson for Prajarajyam party, having previously been General Secretary and also a state committee member in Telugu Desam Party. In 2012, she left the Prajarajyam party and joined the newly formed YSR Congress. Her husband Bhuma Nagi Reddy was also a politician who served twice as a Member of Legislative Assembly and thrice as a Member of Parliament.
2014Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (born 1921)[†]
Tadeusz Różewicz was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of foreign partitions. He was born in Radomsko, near Łódź, in 1921. He first published his poetry in 1938. During World War II, he served in the Polish underground Home Army. His elder brother, Janusz, also a poet, was executed by the Gestapo in 1944 for serving in the Polish resistance movement. His younger brother, Stanisław, became a noted film director and screenwriter.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]