After losing a bitter series against the rival New York Rangers in the opening round of the 2008 NHL playoffs, Brodeur refused to shake Sean Avery's hand.

The result was a bitter division in Republican ranks and a stalled bill in Congress ; columnist Peggy Noonan wrote in January 2008 that President Bush had " destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other ", by pushing immigration reform, as well as other wedge issues for the Republicans.

Tulane University and the Herd baseball team now seem to be bitter rivals as MU was 3 – 1 – 1 against the Green Wave in 2008, winning its first game ever back in April in New Orleans.

According to Panorama, the reason for these bitter comments by Bertinotti is that Di Pietro is very able to attract votes from the far-left electorate, as well as the right, and this could prevent a resurgence of those parties which were driven out of Parliament in the 2008 general election.

In June 2008, Climaxing months of bitter relationship between DMK and PMK, the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( DMK ) in Tamil Nadu severed its ties with the Pattali Makkal Katchi ( PMK ), an outside supporter of the Karunanidhi government.

Its regular mild, best bitter and strong bitter (" Old Henry ") ales have won taste awards in recent years, and the mild was chosen to be a guest beer in the House of Commons bar in 2008.

More recently, in an apparent attempt to rebut Frank's rebuttal via Barack Obama's now infamous " bitter " label regarding Middle America during the 2008 Democratic Presidential campaign, Bartels offered a somewhat revised analysis of Frank's original thesis in an op-ed piece in the April 17, 2008 edition of The New York Times.

The 2008 – 2009 season started with bitter European defeat in the UEFA Cup, as Slovan lost their second qualifying round tie to Slovak club MŠK Žilina.

** February 22 – the bitter feud between the two major open-wheel racing series, the Indy Racing League and Champ Car, ends after 14 years with the two series agreeing to unify for the 2008 IndyCar Series season under the IRL banner

After a bitter rivalry that lasted for three months with Siaki, the two were slated to battle on September 4 at the 2008 Fred Ward Memorial.

Georgia relationships with Russia are at it lowest point in modern history due to Georgian-Russian espionage controversy and due to the 2008 South Ossetia war, Georgia broke off diplomatic relations with Russia and has left the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Prior to the 2008 elections, a decision to change the electoral date and extend the parliamentary mandate resulted in major controversy when the Assembly deputies snubbed the president and chose to extend their mandate.

From 2008 to 2009, the bodyline controversy was a topic in the New South Wales Higher School Certificate as part of the preliminary ( Year 11 ) Modern History syllabus.

When Nova launched a new online portal in May 2008, it included a " Red News " section causing controversy ; asked about the Naked News, they denied securing license and stressed Počasíčko's primacy.

A controversy emerged on May 5, 2008, when a conservative blogger posted a clip of King at a Library of Congress reading event.

In 2008, the usage of the AGM-114N variant caused controversy in the United Kingdom when it was reported that these thermobaric munitions were added to the British Army arsenal.

The school was the subject of some controversy in the 1990s, but an Ofsted report published in January 2008 stated: " It is held in very high regard by the vast majority of students and their parents, and rightly so.

Additional controversy over development proposals arose from the weakening of the Bay Area and national economy in 2000, 2001, 2007, and the credit crunch and the recession of 2008.

In January 2008, he sparked controversy by accepting other government positions in addition to his role as Attorney General ; Sayed-Khaiyum is currently responsible also for " Public Enterprise, Electoral Reform and Anti-Corruption ".

Norrington caused controversy during the 2008 Proms season by conducting Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations, and the Last Night of the Proms, in non-vibrato style, which he calls pure tone.

Meanwhile in the 2008 NBA Playoffs, Detroit rolled out to a Game 1 romp of the Orlando Magic, and won a tight Game 2 amid mild controversy.

At the trade deadline on February 26, 2008, however, apparently unable to agree on a new contract and amid some controversy, Blue Jackets captain Adam Foote requested a trade to the Colorado Avalanche, which was granted.

He was drawn into the controversy surrounding Bishop Richard Williamson, who in a televised interview recorded in Germany in November 2008 denied the Holocaust took place, only to see Williamson convicted for incitement in April 2010 after refusing to pay a fine of 12, 000 euros.

In September 2008, Bernhard created controversy during one of her one-woman shows by saying that Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin would be " gang-raped by my big black brothers " if she entered Manhattan.

In 2008, a showing sheriff's deputies allegedly committing a brutal strip search of a crime victim caused a wave of controversy and protest.

Amid controversy and orders for the police to quiet citizens, the Clayton County School Board hired a new temporary superintendent on April 26, 2008.

As of April 30, 2008 the lawn is no longer a free-speech zone due largely to the controversy caused by the Flying Spaghetti Monster statue.

* The Last Conquistador ( 2008 ), a PBS POV documentary about the Oñate statue controversy

As a juror for the 2008 Governor General's Awards, Brandt was at the centre of some controversy.

* CITIC Pacific # 2008 foreign exchange losses controversy

It was reported on April 4, 2008, in Variety that Clooney had quietly resigned from the Writers Guild of America over controversy surrounding Leatherheads.

This move caused controversy among the Chinese public and the overseas Chinese community, who view the Dalai Lama as partly responsible for the 2008 unrest in Tibet.

The controversy over the statue prior to its installation was the subject of the documentary film The Last Conquistador, presented in 2008 as part of PBS ' P. O. V.

Weaving himself was unaware of the controversy and had accepted the role based on Michael Bay's personal request ; in a November 2008 Sun Herald interview, he said he'd never seen Transformers.

Such rates cannot be sustained, but despite reaching 26. 4 % in 2005 ( second highest GDP growth in the world in 2005 only to Equatorial Guinea ), and 2006 over 34. 6 % ( world highest ), in 2008 dropped to 10. 8 %, and dropped further to 9. 3 % in 2009.

On 4 March 2008, in announcing a partnership with Magna Steyr to outsource manufacture of over 2, 000 cars annually at Graz, Austria, the company stated " The continuing growth and success of the company is based upon Gaydon as the focal point and heart of the business, with the design and engineering of all Aston Martin products continuing to be carried out there.

* over 3, 047 m: 1 ( 2008 )

The government took no action, and handed the final parts of Bakassi over to Cameroon on 14 August 2008 as planned, but a Federal High Court had stated this should be delayed until all accommodations for resettled Bakassians had been settled ; the government did not seem to plan to heed this court order, and did set the necessary mechanisms into motion to override it.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry ", became a catchphrase the world over ( the phrase was used again, first in Ang Lee's Hulk ( 2003 ), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk, with an altered version in Portuguese ).

In 2008 the CIA discontinued printing the Factbook themselves, instead turning printing responsibilities over to the Government Printing Office.

A 2008 expedition from the University of Washington's School of Oceanography collected sediment cores from the lagoon to study climate change over the last millennium.

The proportion of the population aged 15 and over attaining academic degrees grew rapidly since 2001, doubling and reaching 16. 7 % by 2008.

In 2008, JPL spent over $ 1. 6 billion on research and development and employed over 5, 000 project-related and support employees.

Georgia left the CIS in August 2008 after a clash with Russia over South Ossetia.

A 2008 New York Times report claims that Yemen has over 1 million of these discriminated and ostracized Al-Akhdam people, that is about 5 percent of Yemen population.

It was announced in April 2008 that Anderson, who had previously filled in for host Ned Sherrin from 2006 until his death from throat cancer in 2007, would be taking over as permanent host of Loose Ends.

Concerns over the historic episcopate have been sidelined since 2008, though they may re-emerge.

By 2008, Dartmouth had graduated 238 classes of students and has over 60, 000 living alumni in a variety of fields.

DC Comics and its major, longtime competitor Marvel Comics ( currently owned by Time Warner's main rival The Walt Disney Company ) together shared over 80 % of the American comic-book market in 2008.

In 2007, relations between the two have thawed in the fields of diplomacy and economic trade, only to collapse during the 2008 – 2009 Israel – Gaza conflict when the Iranian and Egyptian politicians exchanged blames over inaction towards the escalation.

Global mobile data traffic will grow at a CAGR of 131 percent between 2008 and 2013, reaching over two exabytes per month by 2013.

However, in 2008 the Food Festival was cancelled due to numerous complaints of disruption to residents and some businesses in the immediate proximity ; it has been replaced by a series of smaller events, spread out over the year.

In March 2008, La Niña caused a drop in sea surface temperatures over Southeast Asia by an amount of 2 ° C.

The former, located in Roissy near Paris, is the fifth busiest airport in the world with 60 million passenger movements in 2008, and France's primary international airport, serving over 100 airlines.

BBC Two showed an episode on 8 November 2008 as part of its tribute night to producer Geoffrey Perkins, who had died just over two months before.

In the United Kingdom, a study by Flynn ( 2009 ) found that tests carried out in 1980 and again in 2008 show that the IQ score of an average 14-year-old dropped by more than two points over the period.

Many international artists such as Banksy have left their work in Melbourne and in early 2008 a perspex screen was installed to prevent a Banksy stencil art piece from being destroyed, it has survived since 2003 through the respect of local street artists avoiding posting over it, although it has recently had paint tipped over it.