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A purchase price of $5.8 million with fees for Joan Mitchell’s 1969-70 Abstract Expressionist painting “Afternoon” pushed the total art sales by Christie’s this week past $1 billion.
Jeb Bush is being confronted with a distressing realization: He may now need to lean on his brother to survive the Republican primary, despite the damage that could do to Mr. Bush in a general election.
As much as prosecutors may want to punish the banks, which are accused of rigging the price of foreign currencies, they are mindful that too harsh a penalty could imperil the businesses.
Verizon’s deal to buy AOL, which barely registers in financial terms, may be the signature transaction that vanquishes all perceptions of the company as a stodgy utility.
Since moving abandoned barrels out of an Iraqi warehouse in 2003, a number of soldiers complained of health effects. But they found the Army evasive.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 13, 2015, covering May 14, 2015.
Zac Brown Band
Josh Groban
Soundtrack
Tyler Farr
Drake
2015B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1925)[†]
Riley B. King, known professionally as B. B. King, was an American blues guitarist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimmering vibrato, and staccato picking that influenced many later electric guitar blues players. AllMusic recognized King as "the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century".
2015Micheál O'Brien, Irish footballer and hurler (born 1923)[†]
Micheál O'Brien was an Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler who played at senior level for the Meath county team.
2015Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic (born 1937)[†]
Stanton Jerrold Peale was an American astrophysicist, planetary scientist, and Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests include the geophysical and dynamical properties of planets and exoplanets.
2015Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and translator (born 1953)[†]
Franz Wright was an American poet. He and his father James Wright are the only parent/child pair to have won the Pulitzer Prize in the same category.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]