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The musical, named for the 18th-century hymn often associated with African-American culture and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, unfolds as a history lesson trimmed in melodrama.
A vote in favor of a merger between Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries was a rebuke to Elliott Associates, a hedge fund that wanted to scuttle the deal.
A tenement house taken over by squatters in 1988 is now a co-op with an urban garden and an activist slant.
Abacus Bank discovered a fraudulent loan scheme in 2009 and reported it to regulators. For its trouble, it found itself a target of prosecutors.
A float trip down a beloved river explores what might be at stake if a proposal for a copper mine by its watershed becomes reality.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 15, 2015, covering July 17, 2015.
Meek Mill
Miguel
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
James Taylor
2015Bill Arnsparger, American football player and coach (born 1926)[†]
William Stephen Arnsparger was an American college and professional football coach. He was born and raised in Paris, Kentucky, served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, and graduated from Miami University (Ohio) in 1950. Immediately upon graduation, Arnsparger was hired as an assistant coach with the Miami football program, beginning a long career in the profession.
2015Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (born 1989)[†]
Jules Lucien André Bianchi was a French racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 2013 to 2014.
2015Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic (born 1916)[†]
William Owen Chadwick was a British Anglican priest, academic, rugby international, writer and prominent historian of Christianity. As a leading academic, Chadwick became Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 1958, serving until 1968, and from 1968 to 1983 was Regius Professor of History. Chadwick was elected master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and served from 1956 to 1983.
2015Van Miller, American sportscaster (born 1927)[†]
Van Miller was an American radio and television sports announcer from Dunkirk, New York, where he began his career at Dunkirk radio station WFCB calling play-by-play for high school football games. In the 1950s, he moved to Buffalo where he became the chief play-by-play announcer for the Buffalo Bills Radio Network, the official radio broadcasting arm of the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League from the team's inception as an AFL team in 1960 to 1971, and again from 1977 to 2003. At the time of his retirement in 2003, Miller was the longest-tenured commentator with one team in pro football history.
2015John Taylor, English pianist and educator (born 1942)[†]
John Taylor was a British jazz pianist, born in Manchester, England, who occasionally performed on the organ and the synthesizer. In his obituary, The Guardian described him as "one of the great jazz pianists and composers of his generation" and at a musical level comparable to Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner and Brad Meldhau.
2015At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.[†]
A suicide car bombing occurred on 17 July 2015 in the Iraqi city of Khan Bani Saad, targeting a local marketplace. As of 19 July 2015 approximately 130 people were killed in the bombing, with a similar number of injured. Several people were killed by collapsed buildings. The bomb was hidden under an ice truck in an attempt to attract more people amid the heat. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Islamic State (IS).
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]