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As reports of unfinished homes mounted against Kabul Chawla, a New Delhi builder, an opaque corporate entity bought a $19 million condo at the Time Warner Center.
The White House has some unlikely allies in the presidentâs plans for international trade.
Only 23 women lead companies in the Standard & Poorâs 500-stock index. Yet at least a quarter of them have fallen into the cross hairs of activist investors.
Gov. Bruce Raunerâs executive order would ban unions from requiring all state workers to pay the equivalent of dues.
The Justice Department is demanding that some of Wall Streetâs biggest banks plead guilty to criminal charges in order to settle a long-running investigation.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 4, 2015, covering February 10, 2015.
Fall Out Boy
Taylor Swift
Meghan Trainor
Ed Sheeran
Joey Bada$$
2015Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (born 1934)[â ]
Naseer H. Aruri was an American scholar-activist and expert on Middle East politics, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East and human rights. Aruri was Chancellor Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science, having served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth from 1965-1998. In 1993, he was the recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences âDistinguished Research Awardâ. Aruriâs papers have been preserved and are on display at the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections at UMASS-Dartmouth.
2015Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (born 1928)[â ]
Karl Josef Becker S.J. was a German Catholic theologian and consultor for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 15 September 1977. He taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
2015Deng Liqun, Chinese theorist and politician (born 1915)[â ]
Deng Liqun was a Chinese politician and theorist who was one of the leading figures of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the 1980s, most well known for his involvement with the party's propaganda work. Deng was born in Guidong County, Hunan province, and joined the CCP in 1936. He came from an intellectual family and joined the party out of intellectual commitment. He was often referred to as "Little Deng", to be distinguished from Deng Xiaoping, the "Old Deng".
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]