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In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]
2007Takao Fujinami, Japanese lawyer and politician (born 1932)[†]
Takao Fujinami was a Japanese politician who served as the Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1983 to 1985. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1993, and again from 1996 to 2003.
2007Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1927)[†]
Porter Wayne Wagoner was an American country music singer known for his flashy Nudie and Manuel suits and blond pompadour.
2007Cristina Fernández de Kirchner becomes the first directly elected female President of Argentina.[†]
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the 56th president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015, and later as the 37th vice president under President Alberto Fernández from 2019 to 2023. The widow of Néstor Kirchner, she was also First Lady during his presidency from 2003 to 2007. She was the second female president of Argentina and the first to be directly elected to office. Ideologically self-identified as a Peronist and a progressive, her political approach is called Kirchnerism. Since 2024, she has been the president of the Justicialist Party, the main opposition party to incumbent President Javier Milei.
Why would Rudy Giuliani venture up the Mass Pike and into Ted Kennedy’s stomping grounds when it would be more politically prudent to pander to the faith-based Rockies?
When people buy a Honda Accord, they usually think they are bringing home a midsize car. But the 2008 sedan is so much larger inside that it is now a large car.
In New Jersey, lost towns are what remain of communities where thousands of people lived and toiled in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Many California residents are ruggedly obstinate about the choice they have made to live with the constant threat of fire.
New films pegged to Iraq and other flash points are awash in ambiguity.
Off the field, Giants receiver Plaxico Burress is the type of person who would just rather be at home. But he still agreed to go on a 60-minute blitz of London sights.
In Trenton, the Italian restaurant Marsilio’s, long a State House favorite, is closing.
The New Acropolis Museum is a quiet work, especially by the standards of its flamboyant Swiss-born architect, Bernard Tschumi.
This immensely ambitious book aims not only to conduct a survey of 20th-century classical composition but to come up with a history of that century as refracted through its music.
As firms do the real math, losses related to mortgages could pile up.
An occupied house or apartment will probably cost a lot less, but then the tenants may be there for years.