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After reports that some lenders have stopped offering federal loans at community colleges, two senators introduced legislation to forbid lenders from picking and choosing among institutions.
Questions about an athlete’s eligibility for the Paralympics prompted a dedicated effort from his mother.
Eager to embrace eggheads and ideas, the Pentagon has started an ambitious program to recruit social scientists and direct the nation’s brainpower to combating security threats.
Credit default swaps are taking center stage in another Wall Street drama: whether regulators will let MBIA, the big bond insurance company, renege on a promise to shore up a crucial unit with $900 million in capital.
Conceding the failure of the South Street Seaport pier as a “festival marketplace,” its owners plan to replace it with a mixed-use project including an apartment and hotel tower.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 18, 2008, covering June 18, 2008.
Disturbed
Various Artists
Usher
Weezer
Journey
2008Jean Delannoy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1908)[†]
Jean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.
2008Tasha Tudor, American author and illustrator (born 1915)[†]
Tasha Tudor was an American illustrator and writer of children's books.
2008Hans Steinbrenner, German sculptor (born 1928)[†]
Hans Theodor Steinbrenner was a German painter and sculptor based in Frankfurt who focused on abstract figures in wood and stone. Many of his works are in public space.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]