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The first three runners to complete the New York Marathon after the official cutoff were happy just to finish, and to have forged new friendships.
Even as sales of organic products are taking off, the share price of Whole Foods has fallen 50 percent from its high this year, as investors worry about its prices and more competition.
Honda’s announcement of the recall of 515 CR-Vs from 2016 led Senator Bill Nelson of Florida to ask whether any Takata airbag inflaters were safe.
At $18 a share, or about $5.9 billion, King will sell at a discount to the $22.50 a share that it fetched during its initial offering last year.
Organizations can compel their customers and employees to resolve disputes in arbitration proceedings bound not by state or federal law, but by religious edict.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 2015, covering November 3, 2015.
Selena Gomez
The Game
The Weeknd
Fetty Wap
Drake & Future
2015Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi businessman and politician (born 1944)[†]
Ahmed Abdel Hadi Chalabi was an Iraqi dissident politician, convicted fraudster and founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) who served as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq and a Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq under Ibrahim al-Jaafari. He is believed to have been an Iranian agent and had ties with Iran.
2015Howard Coble, American captain, lawyer, and politician (born 1931)[†]
John Howard Coble was an American politician who was the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 6th congressional district, serving from 1985 to 2015. He was a member of the Republican Party. The district includes all or portions of ten counties in the northern-central part of the state, including portions of Greensboro and Durham.
2015Tom Graveney, English cricketer and sportscaster (born 1927)[†]
Thomas William Graveney was an English first-class cricketer, representing his country in 79 Test matches and scoring over 4,800 runs. In a career lasting from 1948 to 1972, he became the 15th player to score one hundred first-class centuries; he was the first batsman beginning his career after the Second World War to reach this milestone. He played for Gloucestershire and Worcestershire, and helped Worcestershire win the county championship for the first time in their history. His achievements for England after being recalled in 1966 have been described as "the stuff of legend." Graveney was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1953, captained England on one occasion and was awarded the OBE while still playing.
2015Lauretta Ngcobo, South African novelist and essayist (born 1931)[†]
Lauretta Ngcobo was a South African novelist and essayist. After being in exile between 1963 and 1994 – in Swaziland, then Zambia and finally England, where she taught for 25 years – she returned to South Africa and lived in Durban. Ngcobo's writings between the 1960s and early 1990s have been described as offering "significant insights into the experiences of Black women of apartheid's vagaries". As a novelist, she is best known for And They Didn't Die (1990), set in 1950s South Africa and portraying "the particular oppression of women who struggle to survive, work the land and maintain a sense of dignity under the apartheid system while their husbands seek work in the mines and cities."
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]