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After missing two and a half months last season with injuries, Mets outfielder Moises Alou is out of action again with a hernia that will require surgery.
Courts in Rochester and Manhattan have begun to carry out what some say is the de facto legalization of gay marriage in New York by granting reciprocity to gay marriages from other jurisdictions.
There is probably a cautionary tale in the meteoric rise and current embattled status of Jeremy J. Shingleton, first selectman (read: mayor) of Cromwell, Conn.
Stephon Marbury has surfaced after weeks unseen, but when, if ever, will be play for the Knicks again?
After a breakthrough by Sony, serious photographers can no longer snort at the idea of composing shots on a screen.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 5, 2008, covering March 6, 2008.
Jack Johnson
Alicia Keys
Amy Winehouse
Kidz Bop Kids
Soundtrack
2008Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (born 1918)[†]
Peter Porekuu Dery, originally Porekuu Der, was a Ghanaian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Tamale from 1974 to 1994, and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2006. He was the Bishop of Wa from 1960 to 1974.
2008A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.[†]
The 6 March 2008 Baghdad bombing was a suicide bombing attack on a shopping district in Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, on 6 March 2008, killing 68 people and wounding 120.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]