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A year after New York State banned the possession and sale of most shark fins, there seems to be little clamor for the traditional delicacy.
Carlyle’s core buyout business continues to exceed Wall Street’s expectations, but its track record on hedge funds has been mixed, raising questions on its ability to diversify.
What to do with a volatile, aggrieved worker like Vester Lee Flanagan II, who killed two television employees during a live broadcast Wednesday, can be a nightmare for employers.
This play by Sherie Rene Scott, one of its stars, and Dick Scanlan, is drawn on their experience working with prisoners on monologues about their lives.
Jewish lawmakers who support the nuclear deal with Iran have been likened to Nazi collaborators, and those who oppose it have been called traitors.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 26, 2015, covering August 28, 2015.
Luke Bryan
Dr. Dre
Various Artists
tobyMac
Taylor Swift
2015Al Arbour, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1932)[†]
Alger Joseph Arbour was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and executive. He is third to Joel Quenneville for games coached in National Hockey League history and fifth all-time in wins, behind Scotty Bowman, Joel Quenneville, Ken Hitchcock and Barry Trotz. Under Arbour, the New York Islanders won four consecutive Stanley Cups from 1980 to 1983 and won a record 19 consecutive playoff series through 1984. Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Arbour played amateur hockey as a defenceman with the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League. He played his first professional games with the Detroit Red Wings in 1953. Claimed by the Chicago Black Hawks in 1958, Arbour would help the team win a championship in 1961. Arbour played with the Toronto Maple Leafs for the next five years, winning another Cup in 1962. He was selected by the St. Louis Blues in their 1967 expansion draft and played his final four seasons with the team.
2015Mark Krasniqi, Kosovan ethnographer, poet, and translator (born 1920)[†]
Mark Krasniqi was a Kosovar Albanian ethnographist, publicist, writer and translator who did most of his work while residing in Yugoslavia.
2015Nelson Shanks, American painter and educator (born 1937)[†]
John Nelson Shanks was an American artist and painter. His best known works include his portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, first shown at Hirschl & Adler Gallery in New York City, April 24 to June 28, 1996, and the portrait of president Bill Clinton for the National Portrait Gallery.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]