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J. K. Rowling held out an olive branch to the Harry Potter look-alike who wants to publish a guide to her books and whose publisher she is suing for copyright infringement.
David and Gina Giffels, who have been restoring a falling-down house in Akron, Ohio, for 12 years, have no credit card debt.
In Connecticut, a radio system that plays music for students on the bus is getting attacked for the commercials that sometimes annoy students and worry parents.
JPMorgan reported a drop in earnings of 50 percent in the first quarter, but beat Wall Streetâs expectations.
Beth Ditto, the lead singer of the Gossip, takes a shrewdly inclusive approach to the art of spectacle.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 16, 2008, covering April 17, 2008.
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2008AimĂ© CĂ©saire, Caribbean-French poet and politician (born 1913)[â ]
AimĂ© Fernand David CĂ©saire was a French poet, author, and politician from Martinique. He was "one of the founders of the NĂ©gritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined the word nĂ©gritude in French. He founded the Parti progressiste martiniquais in 1958, and served in the French National Assembly from 1945 to 1993 and as President of the Regional Council of Martinique from 1983 to 1988. He was also the Mayor of Fort-de-France for 56 years, from 1945â2001.
2008Danny Federici, American organist and accordion player (born 1950)[â ]
Daniel Paul Federici was an American musician, best known as a founding member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, where he was its organist, accordionist and glockenspiel player. Federici appeared on ten of Springsteen's studio albums.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[â ]