* 2008 – In a highly-scrutizined election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.

In 2008, the BBC created a television series, also called Merlin, where Merlin is portrayed by Colin Morgan.

ISBN 30123742145, Morgan Kaufmann, December 2008

On 28 February 2008, Sony made a similar announcement, of impending sale to a consortium led by American investment banking giant ( now bank holding company ) Morgan Stanley.

* Technical, Commercial and Regulatory Challenges of QoS: An Internet Service Model Perspective by Xipeng Xiao ( Morgan Kaufmann, 2008, ISBN 0-12-373693-5 )

In 2008, Lehman filed for bankruptcy, Bear Stearns was bought up by JP Morgan Chase with blessing by the U. S. government, and Merrill Lynch was bought up by Bank of America.

In 2008, Chicago agreed to lease its parking meter system to an operating company created by Morgan Stanley in a 75-year, $ 1. 16 billion deal as it struggled to close a yawning budget deficit.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

In May 2008, a Morgan poll found 45 % believe Australia should become a republic with an elected president, while 42 % support Australia remaining a monarchy and 13 % are undecided.

On September 17, 2008, the British evening-news analysis program Newsnight reported that Morgan Stanley was facing difficulties after a 42 % slide in its share price.

Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, the last two major investment banks in the US, both announced on September 22, 2008 that they would become traditional bank holding companies regulated by the Federal Reserve.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Japan's largest bank, invested $ 9 billion in Morgan Stanley on September 29, 2008.

Concerns over the completion of the Mitsubishi deal during the October 2008 stock market volatility caused a dramatic fall in Morgan Stanley's stock price to levels last seen in 1994.

It recovered once Mitsubishi UFJ's 21 % stake in Morgan Stanley was completed on October 14, 2008.

Morgan Stanley borrowed $ 107. 3 billion from the Fed during the 2008 crises, the most of any bank, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News Service and published August 22, 2011.

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

* Wapehani District ( Miami District and Valley Trails District merged in 2008 ) serving Brown, Monroe, Morgan & Owen Counties

In 2008, Craig Morgan was the artist.

The Morgan State Marching Band performing during halftime at the Rutgers University-Morgan State football game in Piscataway, New Jersey ( September 2008 )

In 2007, Clarkstown was once again named the second safest city in the United States, in the 14th annual " 2007 – 2008 City Crime Rankings " published by CQ Press – formally known as Morgan Quitno, a unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

* 2008 Cindy Morgan

The ensuing financial crisis of 2008 saw Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley " abandon their status as investment banks " by converting themselves into " traditional bank holding companies ", thereby making themselves eligible to receive billions of dollars each in emergency taxpayer-funded assistance.

The gradual evolution of consensus about the meaning of Carl Andre's art can be found in About Carl Andre: Critical Texts Since 1965, published by Ridinghouse in 2008. The most significant essays and exhibition reviews have been collated into one volume, including texts written by some of the most influential art historians and critics: Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert C. Morgan, Barbara Rose and Roberta Smith.

* ODNB article by Rod Morgan, ‘ Howard, John ( 1726 ?– 1790 )’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Dec 2008

He has been played by Terence Morgan ( 1948 ), Nicholas Jones ( 1970 ), Nathaniel Parker ( 1990 ), Hugh Bonneville ( 1992 RSC Production ), Michael Maloney ( 1996 ), Liev Schreiber ( 2000 ), Tanner Spear ( 2008 ), Edward Bennett ( 2009 RSC ), and David DeSantos ( 2010 OSF ).

In 2008 The Library of America reprinted the entirety of Pillars of Salt in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.

* In 2008, The Library of America selected Runyon ’ s story “ The Eternal Blonde ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Crime Writing.

In 2008, the museum's library was officially named the Bob Hope Memorial Library in honor of one the station's most famous immigrants.

* Jerry Sumney, Colossians ( New Testament Library ; Louisville ; Ky .: Westminster John Knox, 2008 )

* Legal Opinion on Guatemala's Territorial Claim to Belize and MFA Library and GAR and Other Documents and Summary of Legal Opinion of 25 November 2008

* Audubon: Early Drawings ( Richard Rhodes, Scott V. Edwards, Leslie A. Morris ) ( Harvard University Press and Houghton Library 2008 ) ISBN

* V-LIB 1. 2 ( 2008 Vartavan Library Classification for over 700 fields of knowledge, currently sold under license in the UK by Rosecastle Ltd. ( see http :// rosecastle. atspace. com / index_files / Page382. html ).

Nancy Reagan hosted two 2008 Republican Presidential Candidates Debates at the Reagan Presidential Library, the first in May 2007 and the second in January 2008.

* 2006 – 2008, John Spoor Broome Library, California State University Channel Islands, United States.

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

* Background note: " Sorry ": the unfinished business of the Bringing Them Home report, Australian Parliamentary Library, 4 February 2008

Available from Snowden Library ( accessed February 11, 2008 ).

In 2008, The Terminator was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

In 2008, The Library of America selected Ferber's article " Miss Ferber Views ' Vultures ' at Trial " for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.

Recent English verse translations include those by British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis ( 1963 ) which strove to render Virgil's original hexameter line, Allen Mandelbaum ( honoured by a 1973 National Book Award ), Library of Congress Poet Laureate Robert Fitzgerald ( 1981 ), Stanley Lombardo ( 2005 ), Robert Fagles ( 2006 ), and Sarah Ruden ( 2008 ).

* Renfrew, A. C., 2008, Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind, Modern Library.

The 2008 passage of Measure J for Jobs will bring further enhancements to the College, with a new Library / Learning Center / Instructional Media Center, and classroom facilities that offer programs focusing on emerging green technologies and new media in the planning stages.

In 2008, the Library of America selected Dreiser ’ s article “ Dreiser Sees Error in Edwards Defense ” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar ( 2008 ), ‘ EMERGING DIMENSIONS OF DECENTRALIZATION DEBATE IN THE AGE OF GLOCALIZATION ’, MPRA Paper 6734, University Library of Munich, Germany.

The Baen Free Library is a digital library of the science fiction and fantasy publishing house Baen Books where ( as of December 2008 ) 112 full books can be downloaded free in a number of formats, without copy protection.

The Johnson Building at Boston Public Library, Boston, Massachusetts, in 2008.

Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, British Library / Academia, 2008, p. 195

* Borgers ' version of The Maltese Falcon ( 2007 ), opened in Huntsville, Alabama on the AlphaStage of the Renaissance Theatre, on Wednesday, April 2, 2008 in association with the Huntsville Public Library " BIG READ " Initiative.

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