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Phil Jackson this week turned his focus from wooing Carmelo Anthony to revamping the Knicksâ roster, an act that could prove to be the most effective appeal to Anthony.
Delta, watching Persian Gulf carriers make inroads into Europe, is concerned that loan guarantees from the Export-Import Bank in Washington will help them do the same in the United States.
The administration confronts a hard choice: demand the testimony of a reporter and risk sending him to jail, or back off from its aggressive pursuit of leaks.
The group has attacked police outposts and government facilities in several districts of northern Helmand Province, sending the police and military officials scrambling to shore up defenses.
Three judges in Broward County, Fla., have been arrested recently on D.U.I. charges, leading lawyers to wonder: strange coincidence or sign of a larger problem?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 25, 2014, covering June 28, 2014.
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2014Seymour Barab, American cellist and composer (born 1921)[â ]
Seymour Barab was an American composer of opera, songs and instrumental and chamber music, as well as a cellist, organist and pianist. He was best known for his fairy tale operas for young audiences, such as Chanticleer and Little Red Riding Hood. He was a longtime member of the Philip Glass Ensemble.
2014Jim Brosnan, American baseball player (born 1929)[â ]
James Patrick Brosnan was an American baseball player and author who played in Major League Baseball in 1954 and from 1956 through 1963. A right-handed pitcher, he appeared in 385 games, largely in relief, for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox. Brosnan was listed as 6Â feet 4Â inches (1.93Â m) tall and 197 pounds (89Â kg).
2014On Kawara, Japanese painter (born 1933)[â ]
On Kawara was a Japanese conceptual artist who lived in SoHo, New York City, from 1965 until his death. He took part in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1976.
2014Meshach Taylor, American actor (born 1947)[â ]
Meshach Taylor was an American actor, widely known for his role as Anthony Bouvier on the CBS sitcom Designing Women (1986â93), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He was also known for his portrayal of Hollywood Montrose, a flamboyant window dresser in the 1987 film Mannequin and its 1991 sequel. He played Sheldon Baylor on the CBS sitcom Dave's World (1993â97), appeared as Tony on the NBC sitcom Buffalo Bill opposite Dabney Coleman, and appeared as the recurring character Alastair Wright, the social studies teacher on the Nickelodeon sitcom Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]