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The sentiment that drove the sales probably had less to do with those messages and more to do with the impulse to preserve a world in which the speech of the many cannot be held hostage by a few.
After the Paris attacks, appeals for unity have hardly penetrated the sense of isolation, even siege, felt in disaffected suburbs like Vaulx-en-Velin.
More than one-third of people that the city’s Correction Department recently hired had problems that should have disqualified them or needed further scrutiny, the Department of Investigation found.
It turns out that retail pricing, especially for luxury brands with fat profit margins, is far more complicated than just looking up exchange rates.
Raghuram G. Rajan, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has become the subject of a political struggle as he reduces a benchmark rate.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 14, 2015, covering January 15, 2015.
Taylor Swift
Nicki Minaj
Ed Sheeran
Sam Smith
Soundtrack
2015Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (born 1919)[†]
Ervin Drake was an American songwriter whose works include such American Songbook standards as "I Believe" and "It Was a Very Good Year". He wrote in a variety of styles and his work has been recorded by musicians around the world. In 1983, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
2015Kim Fowley, American singer-songwriter, producer, and manager (born 1939)[†]
Kim Vincent Fowley was an American record producer, songwriter and musician who was behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and managed the Runaways in the 1970s. He has been described as "one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll", as well as "a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream".
2015Ray Nagel, American football player and coach (born 1927)[†]
Raymond Robert Nagel was an American football player, coach, and college athletics administrator. He was the head football coach at the University of Utah from 1958 to 1965 and the University of Iowa from 1966 to 1970, compiling a career college football coaching record of 58–71–3 (.455). After coaching, Nagel was the athletic director at Washington State University from 1971 to 1976 and the University of Hawaii at Manoa from 1976 to 1983. From 1990 to 1995, he was the executive director of the Hula Bowl, a college football invitational all-star game in Hawaii.
2015The Swiss National Bank abandons the cap on the Swiss franc's value relative to the euro, causing turmoil in international financial markets.[†]
The Swiss National Bank is the central bank of Switzerland, responsible for the nation's monetary policy and the sole issuer of Swiss franc banknotes. The primary goal of its mandate is to ensure price stability, while taking economic developments into consideration.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]