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Given Apple’s dispute with the F.B.I., what surprised many at the world’s largest gathering of security experts was the nuanced tone of former government officials.
Mr. Cruz turned the solicitor’s office into a defender of the right wing and he made crucial friends in Texas — though he once angered Bush family allies.
Hillary Clinton, campaigning in Michigan before the Tuesday primary, also offered proposals to strip tax benefits from companies that move jobs overseas.
Now in its seventh year, this art fair has moved from Chelsea to TriBeCa, with 45 galleries exhibiting.
The appeal from Mitt Romney and the furious reaction to it captured the essence of the party’s schism.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 2, 2016, covering March 5, 2016.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Rihanna
Joey + Rory
Chris Stapleton
2016Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese activist and politician (born 1932)[†]
Hassan al-Turabi was a Sudanese politician and scholar. He was the alleged architect of the 1989 Sudanese military coup that overthrew Sadiq al-Mahdi and installed Omar al-Bashir as president. He has been called "one of the most influential figures in modern Sudanese politics" and a "longtime hard-line ideological leader". He was instrumental in institutionalizing Sharia in the northern part of the country and was frequently imprisoned in Sudan, but these "periods of detention" were "interspersed with periods of high political office".
2016Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer and engineer (born 1941)[†]
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson was an American computer scientist who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; it was the first system able to send mail between users on different hosts connected to ARPANET. Previously, mail could be sent only to others who used the same computer. To achieve this, he used the @ sign to separate the username from the name of their machine, a scheme which has been used in email addresses ever since.
2016Al Wistert, American football player and coach (born 1920)[†]
Albert Alexander "Ox" Wistert was an American professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL) for the Philadelphia Eagles. He played his entire nine-year NFL career for the Eagles and became their team captain. He was named to play in the NFL's first Pro Bowl as an Eagle. During most of Wistert's career there were no football All-star games, although he was named to the league All-Pro team four times.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]