Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

In 2004, she accorded three stars to chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten ’ s Spice Market restaurant after Vongerichten gave her book Cooking for Mr. Latte a positive blurb ; the Times spotlighted the incident with an Editor ’ s Note.

* Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes ( W. W. Norton & Company, 2004 ) Food Diary columns she wrote from 2000-2002

* In April 2004, Beverly Hughes was forced to resign as minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Counter Terrorism when it was shown that she had been informed of procedural improprieties concerning the granting of visas to certain categories of workers from Eastern Europe.

Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars, saying that Love " worked hard on these songs, instead of just babbling a bunch of druggy bullshit and assuming people would buy it, the way she did on her 2004 flop, America's Sweetheart.

In 2004 the British hip hop group The Streets released A Grand Don't Come for Free, a concept album charting a period of the protagonists life in which he meets a girl, starts a relationship with her and then breaks up with her after finding out she has been cheating on him.

On February 3, 2004, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In 2004, she was quoted as saying, " A woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful.

In 2004 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in recognition of her distinguished service to the country.

" San Diego Union-Tribune reporter Erin Glass wrote that she " wonders at the vision of not just the artist Chihuly, but the wildly successful entrepreneur Chihuly whose estimated sales by 2004 was reported by The Seattle Times as $ 29 million.

In 2004, she became the first American woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, for Lost in Translation.

In her later years, she also visited the Empire State Building frequently, once visiting in 1991 as a guest of honor at the building's 60th anniversary, and also in May 2004, which was among her last public appearances.

The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the American National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ agents about the wire-tapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.

In 2004, she was awarded the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Also in 2004, she portrayed a rising tennis player in the Wimbledon Championships opposite Paul Bettany, who played a fading former tennis star in the romantic comedy Wimbledon.

Since 2004, she has also been Professor of Practice in International Affairs at Columbia University, where she teaches international human rights.

She continues to reside at the Bel Air home, where she lived with her husband until his death on June 5, 2004.

Beginning in 2004, she favored what many consider to be the Democratic Party's position, and urged President George W. Bush to support federally funded embryonic stem cell research in the hope that this science could lead to a cure for Alzheimer's disease.

In 2004, Finnish President Tarja Halonen visited Nicaragua where she stated " The Finnish government and Parliament have decided that Nicaragua is one of the main targets of Finnish development aid.

In 2004 she collaborated with former Los Angeles neighbour Morrissey to record a version of his song " Let Me Kiss You ", which was featured on her autumn release Nancy Sinatra.

On December 20, 2004, Abdul was driving her Mercedes on an L. A .- area freeway when she changed lanes and hit another vehicle.

After reading these allegations on message boards, Abdul told People magazine in April 2005 that she suffered from chronic pain for years following a " cheerleading accident " at age 17 and was diagnosed with reflex sympathetic dystrophy ( RSD ) in November 2004.

When she resigned, Short denounced " the centralisation of power into the hands of the Prime Minister and an increasingly small number of advisers " The Butler Review of 2004 condemned Blair's style of " sofa government ".

In September 2004, Clinton received a quadruple bypass surgery.

Botswana is one of the 15 focus countries for PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief, and has received more than $ 230 million since the program began in January 2004 through September 2007.

In 2004, the Petition Committee received over 18, 000 complaints from citizens and was able to negotiate a mutually satisfactory solution to more than half of them.

" In 2004 he received Afghanistan's highest academic and scientific title " Academician " from the Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan.

While the definitive studies are lacking, the former view received support from a 2004 meta-analysis of 13 small studies.

Counter-Strike received a major technology update and refresh on November 1, 2004 with the release of Counter-Strike: Source, which was heavily updated using Valve's Source game engine to take advantage of more modern graphics and audio hardware.

In 2004, Day received the Presidential Medal of Freedom but declined to attend the ceremony because of her fear of flying.

The franchise again received popular attention in 2004 with the release of Doom 3, a retelling of the original game using new technology, and an associated 2005 Doom motion picture.

While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

In 2004, the UK applied for, and received, Ramsar Site status for the lagoon and other waters of Diego Garcia.

Similarly, the CD / DVD-ROM version of the Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, received the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers, and Codie awards in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

In 2004, Mamoru Oshii released the anime movie Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence which received critical praise around the world.

" The album also received five stars in the 1983 edition of the guide and in the fourth edition that was published in 2004.

On October 19, 2004, following the UN Secretary General's report, the UN Security Council voted unanimously ( meaning that it received the backing of Algeria, the only Arab member of the Security Council ) to put out a statement calling on Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon, in accordance with Resolution 1559.

Linkin Park also received significant recognition during the 2004 Radio Music Awards, winning the Artist of the Year and Song of the Year (" Numb ") awards.

As of May 2004, some 14, 000 Macedonians had applied for a Bulgarian citizenship on the grounds of Bulgarian origin and 4, 000 of them had already received their Bulgarian passports.

Macquarie University teachers also have received numerous awards and citations from the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education since it was established in 2004.

Mallinckrodt who also makes 5 mg, 10 mg and 40 mg generic tablets in addition to their branded generic Methadose received approval for their plain generic tablets on April 27, 2004.

In fact at the 2004 Federal election, National Party candidates received fewer first preference votes than the Australian Greens.

This mechanism of action was elucidated by John Vane ( 1927 – 2004 ), who received a Nobel Prize for his work ( see Mechanism of action of aspirin ).

Moreover, in 2004 Feedback cracked the top 20 on the Billboard 200 chart and received radio airplay.

In the elections of 2003, the People's Party received ( effective January 1, 2004 ) a second seat in the Federal Council, reducing the share of the Christian Democratic Party to one seat.