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Only a relative handful of African-American lawyers persevere on the years-long path to joining a law firm’s lucrative leadership circle.
Mrs. Fiorina is rising in the polls as she runs for the Republican candidacy on the strength of her track record as a businesswoman. The trouble is, it’s not a good record.
Top-tier employers may be changing their official policies in a nod to work-life balance, but brutal competition remains an inescapable component of workers’ daily lives.
Some of the musicians who lament being all buttoned up, physically active and boiling under hot lights are putting new, flexible tuxedo shirts to the test.
Samuel Harrell, an inmate at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, N.Y., died in April after a fight with officers, records show. Other prisoners say the beating was not an isolated incident.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 12, 2015, covering August 18, 2015.
Jill Scott
Future
Lamb of God
Taylor Swift
Soundtrack
2015Khaled al-Asaad, Syrian archaeologist and author (born 1932)[†]
Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad was a Syrian archaeologist who headed the antiquities in the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He held this position for over forty years. Al-Asaad was publicly beheaded by the Islamic State on 18 August 2015, at the age of 83.
2015Roger Smalley, English-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1943)[†]
John Roger Smalley was an Anglo-Australian composer, pianist and conductor. Professor Smalley was a senior honorary research fellow at the School of Music, University of Western Australia in Perth and honorary research associate at the University of Sydney.
2015Suvra Mukherjee, Wife of former Indian president Pranab Mukherjee (born 1940)[†]
Suvra Mukherjee was the First Lady of India serving from the year 2012 until her death in 2015.
2015Louis Stokes, American lawyer and politician (born 1925)[†]
Louis Stokes was an American attorney, civil rights pioneer and politician. He served 15 terms in the United States House of Representatives – representing the east side of Cleveland – and was the first African American congressman elected in the state of Ohio. He was one of the Cold War-era chairmen of the House Intelligence Committee, headed the Congressional Black Caucus, and was the first African American on the House Appropriations Committee.
2015Bud Yorkin, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1926)[†]
Alan David "Bud" Yorkin was an American film and television producer, director, screenwriter, and actor.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]