In an article he wrote for the Irish Daily Star, January 2008, Dunphy admitted that he " couldn't have been more wrong about Cristiano Ronaldo ".

Dunphy and his Owls won the Atlantic-10 tournament in 2008 beating St. Joseph's University.

On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.

The fabrication methods and device characteristics were described at the 50th Electronic Materials Conference in Santa Barbara on June 25, 2008.

In a 2008 interview he described the way that online social media has empowered consumers:

The contrast ratio in available displays as of 2008 might be described as similar to that of newspaper, though newly developed displays are slightly better.

He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 US presidential election and The New York Times has described him as a political liberal.

In 2008 the German news magazine Der Spiegel described Himmler as one of the most brutal mass murderers in history, and the architect of the Holocaust.

The 2008 competition was described as containing " some real standouts both in quality of puzzles and a willingness to stretch the definition of text adventures / interactive fiction.

The band were honoured with the " Best Live Act " prize for their one-off reunion at MOJO Awards 2008, where they were described as the " greatest rock and roll band of all time ".

The band were honoured with the " Best Live Act " prize for their one-off reunion at the 2008 MOJO Awards, where they were described as the " greatest rock and roll band of all time ".

In a 2008 book, David Neumark and William L. Wascher described their analysis of studies on the minimum wage, from several countries covering a period of over 50 years ( but primarily from the 1990s onward ).

As of 2012, there were officially 103 species and subspecies of lemur, 39 of which were described by zoologists between 2000 and 2008.

Following this, Stephenson published a novel titled Anathem ( 2008 ), a very long and detailed work, perhaps best described as speculative fiction.

* In the 2008 video game LittleBigPlanet, the titular planet is described in terms similar to a noosphere — that is, it is the physical manifestation of idle human thoughts.

In March 2008, the United States Department of State published a report to Congress, " Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism ", that described Return to Castle Wolfenstein as an " anti-Semitic video game " with no qualifications.

In a 1945 Wireless World article the English science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke ( 1917 – 2008 ) described in detail the possible use of communications satellites for mass communications.

* 2008 – The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.

Conservative hosts Limbaugh, Ingraham, Bennett, Prager, Hannity, Beck, Levin and Hewitt coalesced around endorsing former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for president at the end of January 2008 ( after Fred Thompson, the described favorite of some of the hosts, dropped out ), in an effort to oppose the nomination of Sen. John McCain ; however, Romney suspended his campaign in February of the same year, and endorsed McCain.

Reviewing a March 2008 concert, The Washington Post described MacGowan as " puffy and paunchy ," but said the singer " still has a banshee wail to beat Howard Dean's, and the singer's abrasive growl is all a band this marvelous needs to give its amphetamine-spiked take on Irish folk a focal point.

In 2008, Sputnik virophage was described, the first known virophage: it uses the machinery of a helper virus to reproduce and inhibits reproduction of that helper virus.

The band including original bass player Paul Dean, played what was described as a raucous comeback gig and in front of an audience of 3, 000 full at The Roundhouse in London on 6 September 2008.

In June 2008 the then Shadow Home Secretary David Davis resigned his parliamentary seat over what he described as the " erosion of civil liberties " by the then Labour government, and successfully won re-election on a civil liberties platform ( although he was not opposed by candidates of other major parties ).

Per United States Central Intelligence Agency's website ( as of August, 2008 ) intelligence error is described as:

On the occasion of his 300th umpiring appearance in 2008, McLaren described Hird's outburst as a " defining moment " in his career.

In May 2008, Goodall controversially described Edinburgh Zoo's new primate enclosure as a " wonderful facility " where monkeys " are probably better off those living in the wild in an area like Budongo, where one in six gets caught in a wire snare, and countries like Congo, where chimpanzees, monkeys and gorillas are shot for food commercially.

In 2008, former editor of Newsweek Jon Meacham, a self described " fan ", criticised The Economists focus on analysis over original reporting.

On 8 February 2008, Roy McShane was taken into police protection after being unmasked as an informer.

** Roy Scheider, American film actor ( Jaws ) ( d. 2008 )

* Smiles, Roy ( 2008 ) Afternoon Play: Good Evening ( BBC Radio 4 )

Evanier speaking on a panel about Jack Kirby with ( from left to right ) Roy Thomas, Joe Sinnott and Stan Goldberg, at the Big Apple Con in Manhattan, November 15, 2008.

In 2008, he returned to the ring to fight Roy Jones, losing the contest by unanimous decision.

Trinidad came out of his second retirement for the fight against Roy Jones, a former four-division champion on January 19, 2008.

* The Red Baron ( 2008 ) – Captain Arthur Roy Brown

* Roy Scheider ( 1932 – 2008 ), actor.

In elections held on May 10, 2008, Granjeno voters elected a mayor ( Vicente Garza, Jr .) and two commissioners ( Marco De Rueda and Roy Garcia ) who all were under the age of 25.

Hudson has been the subject of three plays: Hollywood Valhalla by Aidan Harney, starring Patrick Byrnes as Rock and Stewart Roche as his personal trainer, Toby, which was staged at Bewley's Cafe Theatre, Dublin, Ireland, in 2011 ; " For Roy ", by Nambi E. Kelley, starring Richard Henzel as Roy and Hannah Gomez as Caregiver, which was staged at American Theatre Company in Chicago in 2010 and Rock, by Tim Fountain, starring Michael Xavier as Rock and Bette Bourne as his agent Henry Willson, which was staged at London's Oval House Theatre in 2008.

Roy Richard Scheider ( November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008 ) was an American actor.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

In 2008, Roy Disney married Leslie DeMeuse, a CSTV producer, and Emmy winner of various sailing documentaries.

Bea and Roy Arnold lost their retirement savings in the 2008 recession and had to move in with Jeff and Jenny ; Janet did not have enough room.

* 33 Patrick Roy ( G ) November 22, 2008

* The Pantomime Book by Roy Hudd and Paul Harris ( Paperback-15 Sep 2008 )

* Numbers ( 2008 )-as Lawson / Dodds / Wood ( with Roy Dodds & Patrick Wood )

On 1 July 2008, he was succeeded as Rector of Imperial College by Professor Roy Anderson.

* Roses of Eyam, originally composed by John Trevor ( Beau ) in 1975 ; added to Roy Bailey ’ s repertoire and recorded by him in 1985 on his Hard Times album and reissued on his album Past Masters, Fuse Records, 1998 ; Beau himself released the song officially for the first time as a bonus track on the 2007 UK reissue of the original Beau disc ( Cherry Red ), and on the 2008 Japanese release of the same album ( Airmail Recordings ).