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Hostile and unsolicited deal activity is up sharply this year, according to Thomson Reuters, with nearly $100 billion in hostile activity.
Justin M. Leverenz’s emerging market fund has outperformed most of his peers since 2010.
Fifteen months into the pontificate of Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States find themselves unsettled in ways large and small.
Representative Eric Cantor and President Obama never got along, but Mr. Cantor’s primary defeat this week may also mean the defeat for what remains of Mr. Obama’s legislative agenda.
As many as 500,000 Iraqis fled Mosul after a militant group swarmed the city, many of them Sunnis who seemed less fearful of the group than their own government.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 11, 2014, covering June 13, 2014.
Coldplay
Brantley Gilbert
Mariah Carey
Soundtrack
Austin Mahone
2014Mahdi Elmandjra, Moroccan economist and sociologist (born 1933)[†]
Mahdi Elmandjra was a Moroccan futurologist, economist and sociologist. He is one of the founders of the International Federation for Future Studies (Futuribles). He predicted a number of events, the most important of which was the clash of civilisations in his book "The first civilisation war" in 1992, that is, before Samuel Huntington, who used the same concept in his book "The clash of civilisations" issued in 1996. Mahdi Elmandjra also predicted the occurrence of the "Arab Spring", which he referred to in his writings under the name of "Intifada".
2014Gyula Grosics, Hungarian footballer and manager (born 1926)[†]
Gyula Grosics was a Hungarian football goalkeeper who played 86 times for the Hungary national football team and was part of the "Golden Team" of the 1950s. Regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, he was thought to be the first goalkeeper to play as the sweeper-keeper. Grosics was nicknamed "Black Panther", because he wore black clothing while playing. He won a gold medal in football at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
2014Jim Keays, Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1946)[†]
James Keays was a Scottish-born Australian musician who fronted the rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica-player from 1965 to 1972 and subsequently had a solo career. He also wrote for a music newspaper, Go-Set, as its Adelaide correspondent in 1970 and its London correspondent in 1973.
2014Chuck Noll, American football player and coach (born 1932)[†]
Charles Henry Noll was an American professional football player and head coach. Regarded as one of the greatest head coaches of all time, his sole head coaching position was for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 to 1991. When Noll retired after 23 years, only three other head coaches in NFL history had longer tenures with one team.
2014Robert Peters, American poet, playwright, and critic (born 1924)[†]
Robert Louis Peters was an American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor. He held a PhD in Victorian literature. Born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin in 1924, his poetry career began in 1967 when his young son Richard died unexpectedly of spinal meningitis. The book commemorating this loss, Songs for a Son, was selected by poet Denise Levertov to be published by W. W. Norton in 1967. Songs for a Son began a flood of poetry.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]