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Mitch McConnell mostly took a step to the right to attract support, but the changes still leave a long list of potential losers.
A co-president and a leading contender to become the investment bank’s chief executive has a surprising hobby.
The country’s plans were undone by widespread graft, weak commodity prices and a naïveté over how to succeed in a competitive industry.
Amid the conviction of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, political adversaries across the ideological spectrum are attacking the legitimacy of prosecutors and judges.
Sam Gold’s funny and heartbreaking production treats Shakespeare’s daunting masterpiece with disarming familiarity.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 12, 2017, covering July 14, 2017.
DJ Khaled
Imagine Dragons
Kendrick Lamar
Prince And The Revolution
2 Chainz
2017Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (born 1977)[†]
Maryam Mirzakhani was an Iranian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Her research topics included Teichmüller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry. On 13 August 2014, Mirzakhani was honored with the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, becoming the first woman to win the prize, as well as the first Iranian. The award committee cited her work in "the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces". Mirzakhani was considered a leading force in the fields of hyperbolic geometry, topology and dynamics.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]