Between Heaven and Earth, Room for Ambiguity
By Manohla Dargis
The air is thick with paranoia in “Doubt,” but nowhere as thick, juicy, sustained or sustaining as Meryl Streep’s performance.
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December 12, 2008
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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The Simple Life
By Shivani Vora
In upstate New York, ashrams and Buddhist monasteries offer low-cost peace, quiet and order to the stressed, harried and not necessarily religious.
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Walking a Dream of Desolation
By Keith Mulvihill
In Southwestern New Mexico, more than 750,000 acres of unspoiled terrain form the heart of the Gila National Forest — 3.3 million acres of publicly owned forest and range land.
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Fury Builds Over Crisis at Banks
By Floyd Norris
Efforts by the big banks to point the finger of blame elsewhere seem to be failing at the same time public anger is growing.
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Saluting the Rebel Underneath the T-Shirt
By A.O. Scott
Nearly four and a half hours long, spanning more than a decade and reconstructing a pair of brutal insurgencies, “Che” surely deserves the name of epic.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 2008, covering December 12, 2008.
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808s & Heartbreak
Kanye West
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Fearless
Taylor Swift
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Chinese Democracy
Guns N' Roses
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I Am...Sasha Fierce
Beyonce
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Theater Of The Mind
Ludacris
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Notable Deaths
2008Avery Dulles, American cardinal and theologian (born 1918)[†]
Avery Robert Dulles was an American Jesuit priest, theologian, and cardinal of the Catholic Church. Dulles served on the faculty of Woodstock College from 1960 to 1974, of the Catholic University of America from 1974 to 1988, and as the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University from 1988 to 2008. He was also an author and lecturer.
2008Van Johnson, American actor (born 1916)[†]
Charles Van Dell Johnson was an American actor and dancer. He had a prolific career in film, television, theatre and radio, which spanned over 50 years, from 1940 to 1992. He was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer during and after World War II, known for his upbeat and "all-American" screen persona, often playing young military servicemen, or in musicals.
Historical Context for December 12, 2008
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]