* Botchan goes to Matsuyama: Eight days after Botchan graduates from a college in Tokyo, his principal calls him to his office and tells Botchan that a middle school in Shikoku needs a mathematics teacher.

Eight percent of the population are college graduates.

Other critics, especially those among the Group of Eight, saw these reforms as " dumbing down " higher education, as college diploma students became university graduates overnight.

Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.

Eight minutes before departing the lunar surface, capsule communicator ( CAPCOM ) James Irwin notified Young and Duke from mission control that they were go for liftoff.

Eight rasas and associated bhāvas are named and their enjoyment is likened to savoring a meal: rasa is the enjoyment of flavors that arise from the proper preparation of ingredients and the quality of ingredients.

The Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest from July 18 to July 22, 2001 was one of the bloodiest protests in Western Europe's recent history, as evidenced by the wounding of hundreds of policemen and civilians forced to lock themselves inside of their homes and the death of a young Genoese anarchist named Carlo Giuliani — who was shot in the face while trying to throw a fire extinguisher on a police car — during two days of violence and rioting by fringe groups supported by the nonchalance of more consistent and peaceful masses of protesters, and the hospitalisation of several of those peaceful demonstrators just mentioned.

Eight years have passed, and the city of Genoa is still trying to recover from the many damages provoked by the rioters, mainly devoted to crash cars, setting stores on fire, robbing banks and using any heavy or pointed object as a means to provoke damage to people and objects.

* Manuscript Poems: Eight Hundred Lines of Hitherto Un-collected Verse from the Author's Notebooks, ed.

In the 1980s, Colombia broadened its bilateral and multilateral relations, joining the Contadora Group, the Group of Eight ( now the Rio Group ), and the Non-Aligned Movement, which it chaired from 1994 until September 1998.

Eight rolled the hard way, as opposed to an " easy eight " is sometimes called an " eighter from Decatur ".

Cantonese cuisine comes from Guangdong ( Canton ) province in southern China and is one of the Eight Culinary Traditions of Chinese cuisine.

Zhejiang cuisine ( Chinese: 浙菜 or 浙江菜, Zhèjiāngcài ), one of the Eight Culinary Traditions of China, derives from the native cooking styles of the Zhejiang region.

* Eight Up: The College Years, Survey of Conservative Jewish youth from middle school to college.

Eight teams participated in the first tournament: Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the West Indies ( the six Test nations at the time ), together with Sri Lanka and a composite team from East Africa.

According to the Kojiki, this emperor is said to have ruled from the Thirteenth Day of the Eleventh Month of 456 ( Heishin ) until his death on the Seventh Day of the Eight Month of 479 ( Kibi ).

Shortly before accepting the offer from Nagoya Grampus Eight, Tottenham had rejected an offer from ambitious Second Division club Blackburn Rovers, who had recently been taken over by steel baron Jack Walker.

Eight of the lines provide general metro services, whereas the Airport Express provides a direct link from the Hong Kong International Airport into the city centre, while the Disneyland Resort Line exclusively takes passengers to Hong Kong Disneyland.

** Eight players from the 1950 team played for Head Coach John Longfellow as the United States ' Gold Medal Basketball team at the inaugural 1951 Pan-American Games.

Eight years earlier he was released from a TBS-clinic after being treated for child molestation.

Eight months later Dalglish made a return to football management with Blackburn Rovers, whom he led from the Second Division to win the Premier League in 1995.

Eight Bremen class light cruisers were constructed between 1902 and 1907, developed from the earlier Gazelle class.

Eight months after Syria withdrew from Lebanon under intense domestic and international outrage over the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri the UN investigation has yet to be completed.

Eight of the victims were federal law enforcement agents ; 4 from the United States Secret Service, 2 from the United States Customs Service, 1 from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, and 1 from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Eight of the viral families with DNA genomes have circular genomes, while nine have linear genomes.

The idea of the remake caused wrath among fans of the TV series, since Whedon is not involved and the project does not have any connection with the show and will not conform to the continuity maintained with the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight and Season Nine comic book titles.

Eight game-theorists have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and John Maynard Smith was awarded the Crafoord Prize for his application of game theory to biology.

Eight expansion packs and nine stuff packs have been released for the sequel.

As a further complication, Mary Whitmer, mother to one of the Three Witnesses and four of the Eight Witnesses, said she had a vision of the golden plates, shown to her by an angel whom she always called " Brother Nephi ", who may or may not have been the same angel to which Smith referred.

Eight of the twelve biggest Eastern Orthodox Churches which have adopted the Revised Julian calendar – Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Romania, Syria, and Turkey – also celebrate 1 January as the New Year.

Eight states have acceded to the treaty since entry into force: Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Estonia, and Lithuania.

Book Eight of The Wars of Justinian, and the Secret History, suggest that his relationship with Belisarius seems to have cooled thereafter.

that nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or interference which can be traced back to the Atlantic Charter, signed on 14 August 1941, by Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom pledged The Eight Principal points of the Charter.

Eight ships of the United States Navy have been named USS Hornet, after the stinging insect.

When she realizes her powers have gone at the end of Season Eight, however, Willow ends her relationship with Kennedy, saying that there is someone else Willow is in love with, who she will never see again.

To bypass internet censorship in China, which uniformly considers all the above-mentioned names too ' sensitive ' for search engines and public forums, alternative names have sprung up to describe the events on the internet, such as May 35th, VIIV ( Roman numerals for 6 and 4 ) and " Eight Squared " ( i. e. 8 < sup > 2 </ sup > = 64 ).

* January 8 – Emperor Jin Huidi dies after a 16-year reign in which eight dukes of the imperial family have conducted a civil war ( War of the Eight Princes ) against each other in a struggle for power.

Eight musicals have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama —- roughly one per decade from the 1930s to the 2000s.

* Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the design awards ( original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008 ): Follies ( 1972 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ), The Lion King ( 1998 ), The Producers ( 2001 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 2005 ), The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ), the 2008 revival of South Pacific ( first to sweep the expanded 4 awards for Creative Arts ) and Peter and the Starcatcher ( first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts ) ( 2012 ).

Eight out of ten beneficiaries ( 82 %) now have access to six or more Private Fee-for-Service plans.

Eight out of nine feature films made by Pixar between 2001 and 2011 have been nominated for the award and only two have lost ( Monsters Inc. lost to Shrek, and Cars lost to Happy Feet ).

Eight people have been nominated for both Best Director and Best Actor for the same film.

Eight former members of the Islanders have been inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, seven of whom — Al Arbour, Mike Bossy, Clark Gillies, Denis Potvin, Billy Smith, Bill Torrey and Bryan Trottier — were members of all four Cup winning teams.

Eight states and the District of Columbia have joined the compact.