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One reason the waning moments of a basketball game look so different from the rest of the game is because of special-player defenses like double-teaming and trapping.
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors in Chelsea, a curious combination of art gallery, New Age temple and Coney Island sideshow, will close at the end of the month.
Jeff Feagles and John Carney, two of the Giants’ oldest players, will play at the Pro Bowl in February for the second time in their respective careers.
As the teetering economy and Barack Obama’s election spur plenty of allusions to F.D.R., two exhibitions revisit the early days of the Roosevelt administration.
A. R. Gurney casually tosses his own metaphorical shoe in the direction of our departing president in his latest play, “A Light Lunch,” at the Flea Theater.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 17, 2008, covering December 20, 2008.
Britney Spears
Taylor Swift
Beyonce
Kanye West
Nickelback
2008Adrian Mitchell, English author, poet, and playwright (born 1932)[†]
Adrian Mitchell FRSL was an English poet, novelist, and playwright. A former journalist, he became a noted figure on the British left. For almost half a century he was the foremost poet of the country's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament movement. His best-known poem, "To Whom It May Concern", was his bitterly sarcastic reaction to the televised horrors of the Vietnam War. Mitchell's poems ranged from anarchistic anti-war satire, through love poetry, to stories and poems for children. He also wrote librettos. In 2002, he was nominated, semi-seriously, as Britain's "Shadow Poet Laureate"
2008Robert Mulligan, American director and producer (born 1925)[†]
Robert Patrick Mulligan was an American director and producer. He is best known for his sensitive dramas, including To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Summer of '42 (1971), The Other (1972), Same Time, Next Year (1978), and The Man in the Moon (1991). He was also known for his extensive collaborations with producer Alan J. Pakula in the 1960s.
2008Igor Troubetzkoy, Russian aristocrat and racing driver (born 1912)[†]
Prince Igor Nikolayevich Troubetzkoy was a French aristocrat and athlete of Russian descent.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]