Happy Birthday News
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Hillary Clinton called Tony Bennett “the Henry Kissinger of music.”
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Henry Kissinger , fed up with Israeli haggling, flung a pen at a map of the Sinai Desert. Jimmy Carter clenched his teeth. And Gerald Ford sang “Happy Birthday.”
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Martin E. Zweig, who predicted the 1987 stock market crash and whose newsletters influenced U.S. investors for a quarter century, has died. He was 70.
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Outside the Swarovski museum in Wattens, Austria, a giant, verdant head with crystal eyes and a waterfall mouth guards the entrance to 14 underground chambers of precision cut gems, including the world’s largest.
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Mickalene Thomas’s large-scale photographs of a regal black woman greet visitors at Lehmann Maupin gallery in Chelsea.
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President Barack Obama took the oath of office today surrounded by family in a small ceremony at the White House that officially begins his second term.
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When New York Democrat Charles Rangel first ran for U.S. Congress in 1970, he was so friendly with Nelson Rockefeller that the Republican governor wished him happy birthday, handed him a map and a pencil, and told him to draw his own district.
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Facebook Inc. unveiled a gift- giving feature that will let users buy and send items to their friends without leaving the site, as the owner of the world’s most popular social network seeks new ways to add revenue.
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Kenneth I. Starr knew how to cultivate relationships with powerful people, and he did it in the most transparent way -- by serial name-dropping.
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Mikhail Gorbachev ’s 80th birthday party in London’s Royal Albert Hall last night had diamonds, furs, Hollywood stars, wrinkly rockers and enough Botox to fill the craters of the moon. Understated it was not.
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