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Second Stage is seeking $58 million to purchase the Helen Hayes Theater in an effort to join the small ranks of nonprofit theaters with a Broadway berth.
Palestinians have begun to translate a series of symbolic steps made outside of negotiations into a strategy that has increased pressure on Israel.
A paper by Daniel M. Gallagher and Joseph A. Grundfest takes aim at Lucian A. Bebchuk of Harvard, an advocate for changing policies that prevent shareholders from electing, or overthrowing, an entire board at once.
The transaction is a rare acquisition by Coach, which has embarked on a turnaround that includes ending discounts and transforming itself into an upscale lifestyle brand.
âOutlineâ is a deliberate shedding of skin from Ms. Cusk, who not long ago announced her newfound conviction that conventional fiction is âfake and embarrassing.â
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 31, 2014, covering January 6, 2015.
Taylor Swift
Nicki Minaj
Pentatonix
J. Cole
D'Angelo And The Vanguard
2015Arthur Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (born 1918)[â ]
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Charles Jackson was an American competitive sport shooter. In his international career, he won numerous medals across three Summer Olympic Games, three ISSF World Shooting Championships, and two editions of the Pan American Games. He began shooting in the seventh grade and joined the rifle team at Brooklyn Technical High School in 1934. He competed in local and regional tournaments prior to World War II, during which he worked at the Sperry Corporation and later served as a bombardier in the Pacific Theater of Operations. His first international tournament was the 1948 Summer Olympics and his last was the 1956 edition, at which point he began a career in public service with the Central Intelligence Agency in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He stopped competing at the international level in 1957 and retired from the CIA at the end of 1974. After several years as an instructor and coach, he continued participating in smaller tournaments through the 1990s.
2015Basil John Mason, English meteorologist and academic (born 1923)[â ]
Sir Basil John Mason was an expert on cloud physics and former Director-General of the Meteorological Office from 1965 to 1983 and Chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) from 1994 to 1996.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]