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As Pimco copes with an exodus of cash from its largest fund after the departure of its co-founder William H. Gross, lucrative fees are drawing scrutiny.
Bill Ackman has led something of a crusade on moral grounds against Herbalife, a nutritional supplements company, but he seems unperturbed by Valeant’s rapacious re-pricing of old drugs.
Nearly a year after the Senate released a declassified summary of a report on the C.I.A.’s secret prison program, the full document is the subject of battles in the courts and in Congress.
The playwright John Pollono is a deft practitioner of the sort of twist-in-the-tale narratives that are mostly associated with O. Henry and W. Somerset Maugham.
In Peter Parnell’s new play at Lincoln Center, gay couples with children learn about having (or not having) it all.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 4, 2015, covering November 10, 2015.
Pentatonix
Demi Lovato
The Weeknd
Machine Gun Kelly
Fetty Wap
2015Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation (born 1922)[†]
Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing.
2015Pat Eddery, Irish jockey and trainer (born 1952)[†]
Patrick James John Eddery was an Irish flat racing jockey and trainer. He rode three winners of the Derby and was Champion Jockey on eleven occasions. He rode the winners of 4,632 British flat races, a figure exceeded only by Sir Gordon Richards.
2015André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (born 1937)[†]
André Glucksmann was a French philosopher, activist, and writer. He was a leading figure of the new philosophers. Glucksmann began his career as a Marxist, who went on to reject Marxism–Leninism and real socialism in the popular book La Cuisinière et le Mangeur d'Hommes (1975), and later became an anti-Communist and outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russian foreign policy. He was a strong supporter of human rights. In later years, he opposed the claim that Islamic terrorism is the product of the clash of civilizations between Islam and the Western world.
2015Helmut Schmidt, German soldier, economist, and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany (born 1918)[†]
Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. He was the longest lived chancellor in German history and had the longest post-chancellorship, at over 33 years.
2015Allen Toussaint, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1938)[†]
Allen Richard Toussaint was an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. He was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music's great backroom figures." Many musicians recorded Toussaint's compositions. He was a producer for hundreds of recordings: the best known are "Right Place, Wrong Time", by longtime friend Dr. John, and "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]