Uber CEO Travis Kalanick arrives at the 2014 TIME 100 Gala in New York. Kalanick is known for being a tough guy, and by some measures, that reputation has helped the company. Evan Agostini/AP hide caption

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Shortly before they left Qatar on Wednesday, Grace and Matthew Huang spoke with Dana Shell Smith, the U.S. ambassador to Qatar, at the Hamad International Airport in Doha. Osama Faisal/AP hide caption

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A man walks past a Honda model on display at Honda Motor Co. headquarters in Tokyo. The automaker admits that over the past decade, it didn't report more than 1,700 deaths and injuries tied to Honda vehicles. Honda is also reeling from millions of recalls linked to defective airbags. Koji Sasahara/AP hide caption

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Edward Blum announces the filing of two lawsuits on Monday, challenging the alleged racial preference admissions policies of Harvard and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP hide caption

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Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert A. McDonald attends a news conference after a visit to the James A. Haley Medical Center in Tampa, Fla., last month. Chris O'Meara/Associated Press hide caption

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Some things actually are surprising: Taylor Swift, performing on ABC's Good Morning America in New York City on Oct. 30, sold over a million copies of her new album, 1989, in its first week. Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images hide caption

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