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Across the Americas, governments are increasingly challenging traditional U.S.-led strategies like prohibition and the eradication of crops.
Fast, a native of Sweden playing in his first full N.H.L. season, has been involved in several key plays for the Rangers during the playoffs.
Bowman will become the menâs and womenâs swim coach at Arizona State, and Phelps will train in Tempe as part of the move.
In Pennsylvania, two men with 63 acres and a communal vision of utopia learn the hard way that not everyone follows the leader.
Four chief executives at five companies with ties to John C. Malone, who built a cable and communications empire, were awarded more than $350 million last year.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 13, 2015, covering May 16, 2015.
Zac Brown Band
Josh Groban
Soundtrack
Tyler Farr
Drake
2015Prashant Bhargava, American director and producer (born 1973)[â ]
Prashant Bhargava was an Indian-American filmmaker and designer. He died of a heart attack from a history of heart trouble. Bhargava's short film Sangam, described by Greg Tate of the Village Voice as "an elegant and poetic evocation of immigrant angst, memory and haunted spirituality", premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and PBS. His other directorial efforts include the documentary portrait of his grandmother Ammaji, experimental Super 8 short Backwaters and the poignant and meditative Kashmir, an audiovisual performance with band Dawn of Midi
2015Moshe Levinger, Israeli rabbi and author (born 1935)[â ]
Moshe Levinger was an Israeli Religious Zionist activist and an Orthodox Rabbi who, since 1967, had been a leading figure in the movement to settle Jews in the territories occupied by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. He is especially known for leading Jewish settlement in Hebron in 1968, and for being one of the principals of the now defunct settler movement Gush Emunim, founded in 1974, among whose ranks he assumed legendary status. Levinger was reportedly involved in violent acts against Palestinians.
2015Flora MacNeil, Scottish Gaelic singer (born 1928)[â ]
Flora MacNeil, MBE was a Scottish Gaelic traditional singer. MacNeil gained prominence after meeting Alan Lomax and Hamish Henderson during the early 1950s, and continued to perform into her later years.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]