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In a report, many financial professionals said they knew of wrongdoing in the workplace. And even more found regulators ineffective in stopping it.
Critics said a campaign by the E.P.A. to enlist public support for a proposal to protect the nation’s drinking water might have violated federal law on grass-roots lobbying.
The original characters in this moving Pulitzer Prize-winning drama reprise their roles in this staging at the Barrow Street Theater.
When David Letterman brings down the curtain on his final “Late Show” broadcast, it is not just his own 33-year history in late-night television that is coming to a conclusion.
Two shows, mounted in celebration of the photographer Anton Corbijn's 60th birthday, suggest the power of his work in defining a generation of musical stars.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 13, 2015, covering May 19, 2015.
Zac Brown Band
Josh Groban
Soundtrack
Tyler Farr
Drake
2015Bruce Lundvall, American businessman (born 1935)[†]
Bruce Lundvall was an American record company executive, best known for his period as the President and CEO of the Blue Note Label Group, reporting directly to Eric Nicoli, the Chief Executive Officer of EMI Group.
2015Ted McWhinney, Australian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1924)[†]
Edward Watson McWhinney, QC was a Canadian lawyer and academic specializing in constitutional and international law. He was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2000 for the electoral district of Vancouver Quadra.
2015Happy Rockefeller, American philanthropist, socialite; 31st Second Lady of the United States (born 1926)[†]
Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller was a philanthropist who, as the wife of the 41st vice president of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller, served as second lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. She was previously the first lady of New York from 1963 to 1973, during her husband's last three terms in office.
2015Robert S. Wistrich, English historian, author, and academic (born 1945)[†]
Robert Solomon Wistrich was a scholar of antisemitism, considered one of the world's foremost authorities on antisemitism.
2015The Refugio oil spill deposited 142,800 U.S. gallons (3,400 barrels) of crude oil onto an area in California considered one of the most biologically diverse coastlines of the west coast.[†]
The Refugio oil spill occurred on May 19, 2015, on the Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. It contaminated one of the most biologically diverse areas of the West Coast of the United States with 142,800 U.S. gallons of crude oil. The corroded pipeline that caused the spill closed indefinitely, resulting in financial impacts to the county estimated as high as $74 million as it and a related pipeline remained out of service for three years. The cost of the cleanup was estimated by the company to be $96 million with overall expenses including expected legal claims and potential settlements to be around $257 million.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]