Newton Norman Minow (born January 17, 1926) is an American attorney and former Chair of the Federal Communications Commission. His speech calling to television as a "vast wasteland" is still used even as the speech has passed its 50th anniversary.
While still maintaining a law practice, Minow is currently the Honorary Consul General of Singapore in Chicago.
Minow has been active in Democratic party politics. He is an influential attorney in private practice concerning telecommunications law and is active in many nonprofit, civic, and educational institutions.
President Barack Obama named him a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for 2016.
Richard Garwin
Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an American physicist. He is widely known to be the author of the first hydrogen bomb design.
Garwin was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his bachelor's degree from the Case Institute of Technology in 1947, and two years later his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Enrico Fermi.
In 2016, President Barack Obama honored Garwin with a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Hubert Hammerer
Hubert Hammerer (10 September 1925 – 24 March 2017) was a Austrian sports shooter. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics in five rifle events and won a gold medal in 300 m 3 positions in 1960. He was the Olympic flag bearer for Austria at the 1964 Games.
Hammerer died in Vienna on 24 March 2017, aged 91.
Vasily Borisov
Vasily Fyodorovich Borisov (; born 12 December 1922) is a retired Soviet rifle shooter.
He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics in five individual events and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal.
Between 1954 and 1966 Borisov won more than 20 medals at the world championships. At the 1954 World Championships, Borisov and his teammate Anatoli Bogdanov won 13 medals each, cleansweeping most rifle events.
Hans Rudolf Spillmann
Hans Rudolf "Hansrüdi" Spillman (born 7 January 1932) is a retired Swiss sports shooter.
Spillman won silver medals in the rifle 300 m three positions event at the 1960 Olympics and 1962 World Championships.
Four the Record
Four the Record is the fifth studio album by Miranda Lambert. The album was released on November 1, 2011 through RCA Records Nashville.
Arun Sarma
Arun Sarma () (3 November 1931 – 27 March 2017) was an Indian writer. Sarma was one of India's contemporary playwrights and is known for his unconventional plays with some elements of drama. He also authored over six novels detailing the Assamese way of life.
Sarma was awarded the Padma Shri in 2010 in recognition of his contributions to Assamese literature. He has also been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1998 for the novel "Ashirbadar Rong" (The Hues of Blessing).
Ingeborg Rapoport
Ingeborg Rapoport (September 2, 1912 – March 23, 2017) was a German pediatrician. She was an important figure in East German medicine and, at age 102, the oldest person to receive a Doctorate degree.
Rapoport was born as Ingeborg Syllm in September 1912 to Protestant German parents in Kribi, Cameroon, a German colony at this time.
Rapoport studied medicine in Hamburg at the University of Hamburg in Nazi-Germany, but was denied a medical degree because her mother was Jewish. She fled Nazi persecution and immigrated to the United States in 1938, where she completed her education in medicine.
In the early 1950s, as a result of an investigation of her and her husband for un-American activities, she left the United States and eventually, after staying in Vienna for a year, moved to the GDR (East Germany). She became the first chair of neonatology in whole Germany and retired in 1973. She was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of East Germany.
In East Germany, Rapoport received Habilitation in 1959. She was awarded the National Prize of East Germany as well as other awards. As a pediatrician, she helped to considerably reduce infant mortality in East Germany, which, during her active years was even lower than in West Germany.
In 2015, the Faculty of Medicine of Hamburg University corrected the injustice of the Nazi regime and awarded her a medical degree after an oral examination. She became the oldest person to receive a Doctorate degree at the age of 102.
Rapoport was married to Samuel Mitja Rapoport, whom she met in Cincinnati, Ohio. They had four children. Samuel died in 2004. She lived in Berlin. Rapoport turned 100 in September 2012.
Rapoport died on 23 March 2017 at her home in Berlin at the age of 104.
Roger Wilkins
Roger Wilkins (March 25, 1932 – March 26, 2017) was an African-American civil rights leader, professor of history, and journalist. He was a journalist for "The Crisis" and for a short time wrote for "The Washington Post". Between 1966 and 1969, Wilkins served as the United States Assistant Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was a history professor at George Mason University.
In the 1990s, Wilkins was an anti-apartheid activist and strong supporter of Nelson Mandela. He protested many times for Mandela's release in South Africa during that time period.
Wilkins was a political writer and was known for writing "" (2001).
Wilkins was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied at the University of Michigan. He was married to Patricia King until his death. They lived in Washington, D.C..
Wilkins died on March 26, 2017 in Kensington, Maryland from complications of dementia, aged 85.
David Storey
David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a former professional rugby league player. He was known for writing "This Sporting Life" and for screenwriting movie version. He also wrote plays most notably: "Home" and "The Changing Room". Storey also wrote "Flight into Camden" and his 1976 Booker Prize-winning novel "Saville".
Storey was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He studied at Slade School of Fine Art. In 1956, Storey married Barbara Rudd Hamilton, with whom he had four children. Hamilton died in 2015.
Storey died on 27 March 2017 in London from Parkinson's disease and dementia, aged 83.
2017 Bulgarian parliamentary election
The 2017 Bulgarian parliamentary elections were held in Bulgaria on 26 March 2017. They were originally scheduled for 2018, but the previous political parties could not form a government. So early elections were called.
Before the elections, Boyko Borisov resigned from his prime minister position after the Bulgarian presidential election, 2016.
In order for a political party to win seats, they must receive at least 4% of the popular vote.
The pro-European Union party, GERB, won the most seats. The Bulgarian Socialist Party gained the most seats, while the Reformist Bloc lost all of their 23 seats.
Below is the weekly average of opinion polls in 2017 towards the election. The dots at the end of the graph show the final results.
After the results, Boyko Borisov is expected to become prime minister again.
Penelope Lively
Dame Penelope Margaret Lively (born 17 March 1933) is a English writer of fiction for both children and adults. She has won both the Booker Prize ("Moon Tiger", 1987) and the Carnegie Medal for British children's books ("The Ghost of Thomas Kempe", 1973).
Lively is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also a Vice-President of the Friends of the British Library.
Carl Icahn
Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American business magnate, investor, activist shareholder, and philanthropist. He is the founder and majority shareholder of Icahn Enterprises, a diversified conglomerate holding company based in New York City, formerly known as American Real Estate Partners. Icahn is also Chairman of Federal-Mogul, an American developer of vehicle safety products.
Icahn was born in a Jewish family in New York City. He studied at Princeton University and at New York University.