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The last few days have offered a glimpse of the Republican playbook as the party adapts to the prospect that it will be running against Senator Barack Obama.
Russiaâs professional league expects to catch and surpass the N.H.L. as the worldâs premier hockey league.
The same sorts of loans that drove the housing boom are now giving borrowers incentives to walk away.
President Bush and Democratic leaders went to war on Thursday over how to prevent widening damage from the housing crisis.
With legs that end at his hips and much of his arms amputated, 18 year-old Ohio wrestler Dustin Carter defies the odds. But donât feel sorry for him.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 27, 2008, covering February 29, 2008.
Jack Johnson
Amy Winehouse
Alicia Keys
Various Artists
Herbie Hancock
2008Janet Kagan, American author (born 1946)[â ]
Janet Kagan was an American author. Her works include two science fiction novels and two science fiction collections, plus numerous science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in publications such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact and Asimov's Science Fiction. Her story "The Nutcracker Coup" was nominated for both the Hugo Award for Best Novelette and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette, winning the Hugo.
2008Erik Ortvad, Danish painter and illustrator (born 1917)[â ]
Erik Ortvad was a painter and a creator of many drawings. He debuted as a painter in 1935. He is mostly known for colorful surrealistic paintings.. He also created several hundred satiric drawings about the modern way of life under the pseudonym Enrico.
2008Akira Yamada, Japanese scholar and philosopher (born 1922)[â ]
Akira Yamada was a Japanese scholar and philosopher of the West European Medieval philosophy. Member of the Japan Academy since 1998.
2008The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence withdraws Prince Harry from a tour of Afghanistan after news of his deployment is leaked to foreign media.[â ]
The Ministry of Defence is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is responsible for implementing the defence policy set by the government and serves as the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.
2008Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A MĂ©moire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.[â ]
Misha Defonseca is a Belgian-born impostor and the author of a fraudulent 1997 Holocaust memoir titled Misha: A MĂ©moire of the Holocaust Years, initially presented as true.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[â ]