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Hillary Rodham Clinton struck a publicly defiant posture, while some of her advisers acknowledged privately that they remained unsure about the future of her candidacy.
Putting pen to paper may eventually go the way of eight-track tapes. Here comes the digital Pulse smartpen from LiveScribe.
Louis R. Cappelli, a Westchester County builder, emerged as an unlikely potential savior after the federal government quashed a decades-long effort to bring casino gambling to the Catskills.
John Maine carried a two-hit shutout into the ninth inning and the Mets found offense in unexpected places as they routed the Dodgers.
Tuesdayâs performance by Christoph Eschenbach and the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall must have been a deeply gratifying but bittersweet experience for all involved.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 7, 2008, covering May 8, 2008.
Mariah Carey
Leona Lewis
Flight of the Conchords
Ashlee Simpson
Atmosphere
2008Eddy Arnold, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1918)[â ]
Richard Edward Arnold was an American country music singer. He was a Nashville sound innovator of the late 1950s, and scored 147 songs on the Billboard country music charts, second only to George Jones. He sold more than 85 million records. A member of the Grand Ole Opry and the Country Music Hall of Fame, Arnold ranked 22nd on Country Music Television's 2003 list of "The 40 Greatest Men of Country Music."
2008François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (born 1982)[â ]
François Sterchele was a Belgian professional footballer who played for Germinal Beerschot and Club Brugge. The striker was the top scorer of the Jupiler League in 2006â07. Sterchele died in a single-person car accident on 8 May 2008.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[â ]