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The unclassified report identified problems with nearly every organization that had a role in planning the war, including the White House and the Defense Department.
The operators of E-ZPass in New York estimate that about $13 million is lost each year to artful, and in some cases artless, toll dodgers.
A strategy executives use to turn their stockholdings into cash while delaying payment of taxes is coming under increased scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service.
The well-established middle class is thought to be one of the factors that separates Kenya from other African countries that have been consumed by ethnic conflict.
Facing another big round of contests Tuesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton conducted the biggest shakeup of her campaign to date as Barack Obama tallied another win.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 6, 2008, covering February 11, 2008.
Soundtrack
Alicia Keys
Natasha Bedingfield
Mary J. Blige
Radiohead
2008Tom Lantos, American lawyer and politician (born 1928)[†]
Thomas Peter Lantos was a Hungarian-born American politician who served as a U.S. representative from California from 1981 until his death in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state's 11th congressional district until 1993. After redistricting, he served from the 12th congressional district, which included both the northern two-thirds of San Mateo County and a portion of the southwestern part of San Francisco.
2008Frank Piasecki, American engineer (born 1919)[†]
Frank Nicolas Piasecki was an American engineer and helicopter aviation pioneer. Piasecki pioneered tandem rotor helicopter designs and created the compound helicopter concept of vectored thrust using a ducted propeller.
2008Rebel East Timorese soldiers seriously wound President José Ramos-Horta. Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado is killed in the attack.[†]
Timor-Leste, also known as East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the coastal exclave of Oecusse in the island's northwest, and the outer islands of Atauro and Jaco. Timor-Leste shares a land border with Indonesia to the west, and Australia is the country's southern neighbour, across the Timor Sea. The country's size is 14,950 square kilometres (5,770 sq mi). Dili, on the north coast of Timor, is its capital and largest city.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]