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March 23, 2008

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Who Asked You?

By Teri Karush Rogers

Brokers estimate that as many as a quarter of all buyers solicit third-party views and that 10 to 25 percent of the deals fall apart as a result.

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What Created This Monster?

By Nelson D. Schwartz and Julie Creswell

Executives, regulators and politicians are scrambling to figure out just what created the credit crisis and how it can be fixed.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 19, 2008, covering March 23, 2008.

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    Album cover for Good Time by Alan Jackson

    Good Time

    Alan Jackson

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    Album cover for Sleep Through The Static by Jack Johnson

    Sleep Through The Static

    Jack Johnson

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    Album cover for Discipline by Janet

    Discipline

    Janet

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    Album cover for Float by Flogging Molly

    Float

    Flogging Molly

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    Album cover for Warpaint by The Black Crowes

    Warpaint

    The Black Crowes

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Notable Deaths

Vaino Vahing

2008Vaino Vahing, Estonian psychiatrist, author, and playwright (born 1940)[†]

Vaino Vahing was an Estonian writer, prosaist, psychiatrist and playwright. Starting from 1973, he was a member of the Estonian Writers Union.

Historical Events

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport

2008Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India[†]

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport is an international airport that serves Hyderabad, the capital of the Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Shamshabad, about 24 kilometres (15 mi) south of Hyderabad and it was opened on 23 March 2008 to replace Begumpet Airport, which was till then the sole civilian airport serving Hyderabad. It is named after Rajiv Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India. Built over an area of 5,500 acres (2,200 ha), it is the largest airport of India by area. It is owned and operated by GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL), a public–private consortium. It was the first airport in India to launch domestic e-boarding facility in December 2015, followed with international e-boarding facility in October 2020, and ranked in AirHelp's list of top 10 airports in the world. The fourth-busiest airport in India by passengers traffic, it handled over 29 million passengers and over 167,660 tonnes of cargo between April 2024 and March 2025.

Historical Context for March 23, 2008

In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]