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As Washington officials react with almost contented silence to a weak dollar, European officials are grumbling because it makes American exports cheaper in world markets.
Investors are likely to continue pouring billions into hedge funds and private equity firms as the effort to crimp the industry’s tax advantages has faltered — at least for now.
The debate marked the debut of Fred D. Thompson, who often found himself a bystander as Rudolph W. Giuliani and Mitt Romney attacked each other.
There are no simple, intuitive turns on the long road out of bereavement. We know this from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. We know this from Joan Didion. We know this from the fans of “Meerkat Manor,” for whom the past 10 days have made up a 240-hour period of magical thinking.
The League of American Theaters and Producers made what it called its final offer to the stagehands’ union.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 10, 2007, covering October 10, 2007.
Rascal Flatts
Keyshia Cole
Foo Fighters
Jill Scott
Kanye West
2007Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor becomes the first Malaysian in space on board Soyuz TMA-11.[†]
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al Masrie bin Sheikh Mustapha is a Malaysian doctor. He launched to the International Space Station aboard Soyuz TMA-11 with the Expedition 16 crew on 10 October 2007. Sheikh Muszaphar flew under an agreement with Russia through the Angkasawan program, and returned to Earth on 21 October 2007, aboard Soyuz TMA-10 with the Expedition 15 crew members, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov.
In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]