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Ray LaHood

Ray LaHood, a former U.S. Representative from Illinois (1994-2008), served as the Secretary of Transportation under President Barack Obama from 2009-13. He led a 60,000-employee agency that regulates…

Edith Brown Clement

Edith "Joy" Brown Clement is a judge on the United State Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans, Louisiana. In July of 2005 Clement was reported to be on the short list of…

John Kasich

John Kasich is the Ohio governor, former Congressman and former TV chat show host who ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2016. John Kasich was first elected Congressman from Ohio's…

Entertainment News from January 1999

1Despite only a handful of top-quality films to choose from at the multiplexes, audiences spent a whopping $6.86 billion at the box office in 1998, up 10 percent from 1997, according to…

Dido

Name at birth: Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley ArmstrongEnglish singer Dido came onto the pop scene in the early 2000s, and by the end of the decade was an Oscar nominee for her song "If I Rise…

Evan Bayh

Name at birth: Birch Evans Bayh III Evan Bayh has been a U.S. senator from Indiana since 1999. A conservative Democrat from a heartland state, Bayh is also part of a political family: his father,…

Bill Maher

Bill Maher is a stand-up comedian and a self-made political savant on the TV shows Politically Incorrect and Real Time with Bill Maher. He grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Cornell University in…

Frankie Muniz

Frankie Muniz is best known as the young lead of the television comedy series Malcolm in the Middle (2000-06). Muniz has worked in television since the late 1990s, but he became an overnight…

J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award

The award, named for the NBA's second commissioner, is presented annually by the Professional Basketball Writers Association to an NBA player or coach for exemplary community service. Other…

parlement

(Encyclopedia) parlementparlementpärˈləmənt, Fr. pärləmäNˈ [key], in French history, the chief judicial body under the ancien régime. The parlement consisted of a number of separate chambers: the…