In December 2008, the conference asked President George W. Bush to pardon Jonathan Pollard, a former U. S. navy analyst who was sentenced to life in prison in 1987 for spying for Israel.

In the Patriots ' 2008 season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs at Gillette Stadium, Brady's left knee was seriously injured midway through the first quarter on a hit by Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard ; he left the game and did not return.

* Stephen Pollard ( 2008 – present )

Author Laura Beatty lives in the forest and it provides the inspiration for her 2008 novel Pollard.

Featuring Keith Cole as the omniscient MC, burlesque from The Scandelles, Shane MacKinnon ( the Beefcake Boys ) and the uber-fabulous Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard ( 2Boys. tv of Montreal ), ArtHouse Cabaret won Outstanding New Musical at the 2008 Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

Pollard played limited minutes during the season and saw no playing time during the Celtics championship run in the 2008 NBA Playoffs.

On April 12, 2008, during a game against the Atlanta Hawks, Pollard filled in for color commentator Tom Heinsohn on CSN New England's game telecast.

In the 2008 season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs, Cassel came under center when Brady suffered a torn ACL and MCL in the first quarter from a hit by Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard.

On February 21, 2008, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband admitted that two US extraordinary rendition flights refuelled on Diego Garcia in 2002.

A sizeable budget deficit was a key concern, but recent initiatives by government have changed the situation allowing for the country to be admitted into the eurozone as of 1 January 2008.

In October 2008, Reagan was admitted to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center after falling at home.

He flatly denied paternity for 20 years but finally admitted it in 2008.

In a 2008 interview with the Charlotte Observer, Shinn ( who has not returned to Charlotte since the Hornets moved ) admitted that the " bad judgment I made in my life " played a role in the Hornets ' departure.

Morgan Stanley admitted on June 18, 2008 this resulted in a $ 120m loss for the firm.

On October 14, 2008, the CIAA Board of Directors admitted Chowan as a full member effective July 1, 2009, the first non-HBCU to play in the conference.

After another audit in 2008 revealed that money was missing from accounts, the Foundation said that it filed a case against the director, Roberto Cearsolo Barrenetxea, " for financial and accounting irregularities ", asserting that he had admitted diverting money from two companies that manage the Guggenheim Bilbao building and its art collection to his own account since 1998.

The hospital was closed in 2008 after the Hillingdon Primary Care Trust admitted it had become too costly to maintain.

The Central Bank of Ireland fined The Irish Times in 2008 after it admitted breaking market abuse rules.

" Yes ' planned summer 2008 tour was subsequently cancelled, with the press release saying, " Jon Anderson was admitted to the hospital last month after suffering a severe asthma attack.

McLachlan also admitted the song was inspired by the dissolution of her marriage, which she announced in September 2008, during initial promotion.

" According to the ABA, in 2007 – 2008 the school admitted only 11. 8 % of applicants and no students left as a result of " academic " shortcomings.

I could not respond to what was going on and I just told my band just to play the vamp and I would think of something .” In 2008 Burke admitted to serial infidelity during his marriage: " I was young.

On February 11, 2008, Kravitz was admitted to Miami Hospital suffering from severe bronchitis.

After reaching 40-40, the street in front of his former high school was named after him and later rescinded in 2008 after he admitted to previously using drugs throughout his career.

In 2008, Sobell admitted he was a spy and confirmed Julius Rosenberg was " in a conspiracy that delivered to the Soviets classified military and industrial information and what the American government described as the secret to the atomic bomb.

In 2008, after many years of denial, Morton Sobell finally admitted he was a Soviet spy and confirmed Julius Rosenberg was " in a conspiracy that delivered to the Soviets classified military and industrial information ... the atomic bomb.

) program in Counseling Psychology admitted its first students in the fall of 2008.

It is one of the original nine Clarendon Schools ( including Eton College, Harrow and Charterhouse School ) that were defined by the Public Schools Act 1868 Originally a boarding school for boys, girls have been admitted into the Sixth Form since 2008 and its mixed gender roll of around 720 includes approximately 130 day pupils.

In his speech on 15 September 2008, he admitted that he was tired because of the criticism of his opponents.

On Monday, 16 June 2008, Chahine was flown to Paris on an emergency flight and admitted to the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris, where his niece told AFP his condition was " critical but stable.

As well, the number of Colombians being admitted to the U. S. between 1999 and 2008 using fiancé visas ( including children ) has increased 321 percent.

Eventually, however, it was proven he was right, as in 2008. the authorities admitted that all tigers in Panna have been poached.

In the UK in 2009 it was estimated that up to 12 million shoppers appeared at the sales ( a rise of almost 20 % compared to 2008, although this was also affected by the fact that the VAT would revert to 17. 5 % from 1 January ).

In November 2008, Columbia's undergraduate student body held a referendum on the question of whether or not to invite ROTC back to campus, and the students who voted were almost evenly divided on the issue.

By late 2008, the helmet had been dented almost beyond recognition.

* 2008 – President George W. Bush makes his fourth and final ( planned ) trip to Iraq as president and is almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad.

The World Health Organisation estimated that Malaria killed almost one million people in 2008.

On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.

An average of twenty-nine roadblocks, almost 4 for every 100 km, were reported from June to September 2008.

The capital was almost out of fuel and transport of supplies caused by a crippling general strike in southern Nepal on February 17, 2008.

In 2008, it was proposed that the same mechanism that produces superconductivity could produce a superinsulator state in some materials, with almost infinite electrical resistance.

In 2008, an aircraft carrying almost 700 kg of cocaine was caught at Freetown ’ s airport and 19 people, including customs officials, were arrested, and the minister for transport is still suspended.

Between 2008 and 2012 this process was rapidly reversed, characterized by the fact that almost a quarter of Spain's workforce is currently unemployed.

She made a profit of £ 140 ( almost £ 5, 000 in 2008 currency ) on the first edition, which sold all 750 printed copies by July 1813.

Since 1992 Shanghai has recorded double-digit growth almost every year except during the global recession of 2008 and 2009.

Until the 2000s broadcast TV programs were generally transmitted as an analog television signal, but in 2008 the USA went almost exclusively digital.

Between 1962 and 2008, it sent out almost 18 million, worldwide.

In 2006, it was again rebranded as the IBM System i. In 2008, almost 20 years after being introduced, the product line was discontinued and replaced by the IBM Power Systems line.

That figure grew to almost 11 percent in 2008, according to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.

As the largest employer in Orange County, UCI contributes an annual economic impact of $ 4. 2 billion with an operating budget of almost $ 1. 9 billion for 2008 including $ 328 million in extramural research funding.

On September 15, 2008, a wider financial crisis became evident when Lehman Brothers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy along with the economic effect of record high oil prices which reached almost $ 150 per barrel two months earlier.

Because of the 2003 law's overpayments, the number of organizations offering Fee-for-Service plans has increased dramatically, from 11 in 2006 to almost 50 in 2008.

Public transport to districts within the city and to the surrounding towns, like Bridge of Allan and Alloa, is almost completely provided by buses operated principally by the First Group, although there are also railway links to Bridge of Allan, Dunblane, and, since 2008, Alloa.

Allen and Seaman ( 2009 ) claim that almost a quarter of all students in post-secondary education were taking fully online courses in 2008, and a report by Ambient Insight Research suggests that in 2009, 44 percent of post-secondary students in the USA were taking some or all of their courses online, and projected that this figure would rise to 81 percent by 2014.

In a 2008 study, the Center for Disease Control found that, of the study participants who were men who had sex with men (" MSM "), almost one in five ( 19 %) had HIV and " among those who were infected, nearly half ( 44 percent ) were unaware of their HIV status.

As part of Ohio's 5th congressional district and Ohio's 15th congressional district it had been represented by Republicans for almost seventy years until the 2008 election, when Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy, won a close, disputed contest against Steve Stivers.

Although Democratic presidential candidates have only won the county in four of the last 13 elections ( Kennedy in 1960, Johnson in 1964, Clinton in 1992 and Obama in 2008 ), the races have almost always been close, such as in 1980, when Ronald Reagan won by a landslide nationwide, but by a mere 1 % in Wake County.