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When Sprint officially announced on Wednesday that it had abandoned its plans to buy T-Mobile, the T-Mobile chief had plenty to say.
An experimental medicine that has been called a âsecret serumâ is being given to two Americans infected with Ebola.
After a man died in a police chokehold, Mayor Bill de Blasio sought a healing moment last Thursday at City Hall. It didn't work, and he is still struggling to take command of the controversy.
Some of the diaries, contracts, letters and other documents from the American Ballet Theater will go on view next week.
The dam supplies electricity for a large region of northern Iraq, including the city of Mosul. Its capture has alarmed residents, already fleeing their homes from advancing Sunni extremists.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 6, 2014, covering August 7, 2014.
5 Seconds of Summer
Soundtrack
Weird Al Yankovic
Sam Smith
Kidz Bop Kids
2014VĂctor Fayad, Argentine lawyer and politician (born 1955)[â ]
VĂctor Manuel Federico Fayad was an Argentine politician and lawyer. He was a member of the Radical Civic Union.
2014Perry Moss, American football player and coach (born 1926)[â ]
Perry Lee Moss was an American football player, coach, and executive. Moss played tailback at the University of Tulsa and quarterback at Illinois during the 1940s. As a Tulsa tailback, he was on the Orange Bowl team that beat Georgia Tech, 26â12, in the 1945 Orange Bowl and later as an Illinois T-quarterback, he directed a Rose Bowl team which routed UCLA, 45â14, in 1947. Moss served two years in the United States Air Force between his playing time at Tulsa and Illinois. At Illinois, he was named to All-Big Ten Conference and All-American teams. He was drafted in 1948 by the Green Bay Packers in the 13th round and played at the professional level for one year before returning to Illinois as an assistant. He started one game at quarterback for the Packers.
2014Henry Stone, American record producer (born 1921)[â ]
Henry Stone, born Henry David Epstein, was an American record company executive and producer whose career spanned the era from R&B in the early 1950s through the disco boom of the 1970s to the 2010s. He was best known as co-owner and president of TK Records, but reportedly set up more than 100 record labels, and generated more than $100 million in record sales across the world. Stone was described as "an acute businessman who always made sure that contracts and publishing agreements were written in his favor."
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]