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Trent Lott with foot removed from mouth, HE'S set loose on senate again
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Eight takes on a name in the news
Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott returns to the center of power,
besting Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander to win the minority whip
spot. This is the guy who stepped down in 2002 as Republican
majority leader after making what some called racially insensitive
remarks: "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran
for president [as a staunch segregationist], we voted for him. We're
proud of it," Lott said. "And if the rest of the country had
followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all
these years, either."
Good hair wins every ...
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On the path of Jean Sibelius
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Review
; ...delightful to find Sibelius himself refuting...your Janne Not even Sibelius's imagination...1885-1889), Sibelius, who had been christened Johan Christian Julius (not Johan Julius...stated), adopted "Jean" as his professional...
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Jean Sibelius: The Hameenlinna Letters: Scenes from a Musical Life, 1874-1895.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...first volume of whose Sibelius biography has hitherto...new information about Sibelius's formative years...s recent biography, Jean Sibelius [London: Phaidon Press...was christened Johan Christian Julius Sibelius. (Most biographical...
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Jean Sibelius: A Guide to Research.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...first volume of whose Sibelius biography has hitherto...new information about Sibelius's formative years...s recent biography, Jean Sibelius [London: Phaidon Press...was christened Johan Christian Julius Sibelius. (Most biographical...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1947; Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, 1949; Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, composer, 1957; George Seferis (Giorgos Stylianou...Seferiades), poet and diplomat, 1971; Jule Styne (Julius Kerwin Stein), songwriter and composer, 1994...
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Anniversaries: 8th December 1995
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...1861; Georges Melies, cinema pioneer, 1861; Georges-Leon Jules-Marie Feydeau, playwright, 1862; Jean Julius Christian Sibelius, composer, 1865; James Grover Thurber, wit and cartoonist, 1894. Deaths: Adriaan Willaert, composer...
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FEBRUARY 2 -- Chamber mu ...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Smith Performing Arts Center. Jean-Paul Fouchecourt and the...conducts Sergey Khatchatryan in Sibelius's violin concerto. 4...with Ian Bostridge, tenor; Julius Drake, piano. 8 p.m. Library...Yuri Temirkanov, conductor; Christian Blackshaw, piano. 24...
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