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Joe Rice, a South Carolina alumnus who has donated about $5 million to the university’s athletic program, and other boosters could become more essential as a result of the O’Bannon ruling.
Mental Floss has become one of the magazine industry’s biggest video success stories by deploying a secret weapon — the author and YouTube star John Green.
Twitch has built a platform that hosts live events akin to the N.F.L., the United States Open or the X Games — and it has the audience to show for it.
Some entrepreneurs say worries about a possible downturn are partly why they are stocking up on financing, essentially taking out insurance on the risk of harder days ahead.
Ketchum’s staff members who provide public relations advice to Russia must avoid being seen as defending acts contrary to American interests while still providing some luster for a lucrative client.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 27, 2014, covering September 1, 2014.
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Various Artists
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The Gaslight Anthem
Troye Sivan
2014Ahmed Abdi Godane, Somali militant leader (born 1977)[†]
Ahmed Abdi Godane, also known as Mukhtar Abu Zubair, was a Somali militant leader who served as the second emir of al-Shabaab, an Islamist militant group based in Somalia. Godane, who received training and fought in Afghanistan, was designated by the United States as a terrorist. The exact date of Godane's rise to al-Shabaab's Emir is debated, although it seems he ascended to this position in December 2007.
2014Roger McKee, American baseball player (born 1926)[†]
Roger Hornsby McKee was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1943-44 for the Philadelphia Phillies while still a teenager.
2014Joseph Shivers, American chemist and academic, developed spandex (born 1920)[†]
Joseph Clois Shivers Jr. was an American textile chemist who was based in West Chester, Pennsylvania, best known for his role in the structural development of Spandex, a thermoplastic elastomer, in the 1950s, while employed at DuPont.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]