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At the closing ceremony of the 61st Cannes Film Festival, the red carpet was overrun by teenagers when the French film âThe Classâ (âEntre les Mursâ) won the Palme dâOr.
The Mets loss to the Colorado Rockies on Sunday only heightens the pressure on Willie Randolph, the Mets manager, heading into a very important week.
Amanda Lorber is a case study in the perils that a young person faces when she becomes a reality-television star before she is old enough to vote.
State and local officials say federal financing for domestic security is too closely tied to combating terrorist threats.
Every morning at 10, before it allows customers to set foot inside its flagship store on Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor plays the national anthem, a ritual that started in 1979.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 21, 2008, covering May 26, 2008.
Neil Diamond
Toby Keith
Madonna
Clay Aiken
Mariah Carey
2008Sydney Pollack, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1934)[â ]
Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films. Over his forty year career he received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards.
2008Zita UrbonaitÄ, Lithuanian cyclist (born 1973)[â ]
Zita UrbonaitÄ was a female road racing cyclist from Lithuania.
2008Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1.3Â million.[â ]
The 2008 South China floods began on 26 May 2008. Four rounds of torrential rains with landslides and flooding lasted for 20 days and affected fifteen provinces in Eastern and Southern China.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[â ]