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On Friday, France celebrated the famed anthropologist and author Claude Lévi-Strauss’s centenary with films, lectures and free admission to the museum he inspired.
In a one-woman sting operation, Doreen Giuliano sought to prove that her son had been wrongly convicted of murder.
Even as they make up nearly 40 percent of family care providers now, men are less likely to ask for help to cope.
The television market offers a glimpse of the broader tensions between cautious consumers and desperate retailers.
Doug Williams, the first African-American quarterback to win the Super Bowl, said the N.F.L. has reached the point that “nobody is going to pass up a guy who can play” based on skin color.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 26, 2008, covering November 29, 2008.
Taylor Swift
David Archuleta
Various Artists
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2008Jørn Utzon, Danish architect, designed the Sydney Opera House (born 1918)[†]
Jørn Oberg Utzon was a Danish architect. In 1957, he won an international design competition for his design of the Sydney Opera House in Australia. Utzon's revised design, which he completed in 1961, was the basis for the landmark, although it was not completed until 1973.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]