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The Rivington House deal, netting by far the largest sum received by the city for a deed change during the de Blasio administration, went largely unnoticed, despite community efforts to retain the building as a long-term care center.
The Stop Trump movement may never have another opportunity like the one in Wisconsin, where resistance to Mr. Trump was high even before his latest controversies.
Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan and Hope Solo are among those contending that they are the driving economic force for U.S. Soccer but are paid far less than menâs players.
The nation is recasting itself as a glamour and eco-tourism destination, but its African-inflected culture is what lulls you.
Chantal Akermanâs last feature, about her mother, makes the viewer wonder how any of us, in our unguarded intimacy, manage to survive.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 30, 2016, covering March 31, 2016.
Rihanna
Adele
Justin Bieber
Joey + Rory
Kendrick Lamar
2016Ronnie Corbett, Scottish comedian, actor and screenwriter (born 1930)[â ]
Ronald Balfour Corbett was a Scottish actor, broadcaster, comedian and writer. He had a long association with Ronnie Barker in the BBC television comedy sketch show The Two Ronnies. He achieved prominence in David Frost's 1960s satirical comedy programme The Frost Report and subsequently starred in sitcoms such as No â That's Me Over Here!, Now Look Here, and Sorry!.
2016Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (born 1927)[â ]
Hans-Dietrich Genscher was a German statesman and a member of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP), who served as Federal Minister of the Interior from 1969 to 1974, and as Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs and Vice Chancellor of Germany from 1974 to 1992, making him the longest-serving occupant of either post and the only person to have held one of these positions under two different Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1991 he was chairman of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
2016Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-born English architect and academic, designed the Bridge Pavilion (born 1950)[â ]
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid was an Iraqi-born British architect, artist, and designer. She is recognised as a key figure in the architecture of the late-20th and early-21st centuries. Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied mathematics as an undergraduate and later enrolled at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1972. In search of an alternative to traditional architectural drawing, and influenced by Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde, Hadid adopted painting as a design tool and abstraction as a method to "reinvestigate the aborted and untested experiments of Modernism [...] to unveil new fields of building".
2016Imre KertĂ©sz, Hungarian author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)[â ]
Imre Kertész was a Hungarian author and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for writing that upholds the fragile experience of the individual against the barbaric arbitrariness of history". He was the first Hungarian to win the Nobel in Literature. His works deal with themes of the Holocaust, dictatorship, and personal freedom.
2016Denise Robertson, British writer and television broadcaster (born 1932)[â ]
Denise Robertson was a British writer and television broadcaster. She made her television debut as the presenter of the Junior Advice Line segment of the BBC's Breakfast Time programme in 1985, though she is best known as the resident agony aunt on the ITV show This Morning from its first broadcast on 3 October 1988 until her death. In the course of her career, she dealt with over 200,000 letters from viewers seeking advice. In 2006 she was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to broadcasting.
2016NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to Earth after a yearlong mission at the International Space Station.[â ]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the United States's civil space program, aeronautics research and space research. Established in 1958, it succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to give the American space development effort a distinct civilian orientation, emphasizing peaceful applications in space science. It has since led most of America's space exploration programs, including Project Mercury, Project Gemini, the 1968â1972 Apollo program missions, the Skylab space station, and the Space Shuttle. Currently, NASA supports the International Space Station (ISS) along with the Commercial Crew Program and oversees the development of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System for the lunar Artemis program.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[â ]