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REQUIEM FOR A BULL-LYRE
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AMIDST THE NEWS of looting and book-burning in Baghdad, little has
been said about a considerable loss to music history.
The Iraqi National Museum contained two examples of the earliest-
known stringed instrument in the history of the world. The instrument
may be familiar to Boston-area residents from the mural on the
Brookline Street side of the Middle East music club in Cambridge's
Central Square. That big gold bull-headed thing? That's a bull-lyre
from the Sumerian city of Ur, made and played around 2400 BC-not long
before the biblical Abraham supposedly lived there.
In the 1930s, the ...
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Earl Warren's Legacy
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered
; ...Things Considered 06-30-2008 Earl Warren's Legacy Host: ROBERT SIEGEL...Pepperdine University): Whatever made Earl Warren so controversial in his day, that...school desegregation ruling, the Warren Court established the one person...
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The chief: in his biography of Earl Warren, Jim Newton renders a politician and a justice who read the Constitution as a user's manual.(BUZZ: The Arts: Tom Carson on Books)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Magazine
; During Earl Warren's three energetic terms...they could have had Earl Warren. Taking him might have spared...fascinated 12-year-old Earl's first encounter with...the esteem in which Earl Warren, who was running for attorney...
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To Dwight Eisenhower's regret, Earl Warren changed the face of the court and America.
Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
; ...Leubsdorf ``Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made'' by Jim...In the years after he named Earl Warren as chief justice, President Dwight...is in many ways the America that Earl Warren made." ___ (c) 2006, The...
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Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian
; Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made. By Jim Newton...the impeachment of Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court. His abuses...one John Birch member convinced that Warren's judicial activism was dangerously...
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Chief Justice: A Biography of Earl Warren.
Magazine article from: Trial
; ...understood great American of the 20th century. Earl Warren was by every measure an utterly ordinary man. He...order conservatives denounced it and vilified Warren. "Impeach Earl Warren" signs dotted the countryside. Richard Nixon essentially...
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The nation he made.(Law and Literature)(Earl Warren; 'Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made')(Book review)
Magazine article from: LawNow
; Earl Warren was a gifted politician and a remarkable...fascinating biography, Justice for All: Earl Warren and the Nation He Made (2006) by Jim Newton...The heart of the book is the recounting of Warren's tenure as Chief Justice during a tumultuous...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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A MASTERFUL LOOK AT THE EVOLUTION OF EARL WARREN IN `CHIEF JUSTICE'.(Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; ...S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren was blunt rather than elegant in...by the Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren.'' Such words are thrown at people...But not even the ``Impeach Earl Warren'' signs erected by the John Birch...
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AN EARL WARREN SHADOW SHEDS SOME LIGHT ON ALITO
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; WASHINGTON - Earl Warren, the chief justice whose bland Joe Friday...Alito Jr.'s confirmation hearings. Warren, who died in 1974, is always on the...insistence that he will not be another Warren that is stirring concern. "In college...
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Inauguran Earl Warren High School con todos los honores
Newspaper article from: La Prensa de San Antonio
; ...la nueva y sper moderna Earl Warren High School (9411 Military...los Estados Unidos, Earl Warren, cuyos familiares; Nina...por el jefe justiciero Earl Warren. El justiciero...escuela preparatoria Earl Warren High School. La escuela...
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The Supreme Court under Earl Warren, 1953-1969
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History
; The Supreme Court under Earl Warren, 1953-1969. By Michal R. Belknap...In The Supreme Court under Earl Warren, 1953-1969, Michal R. Belknap...Dwight D. Eisenhower nominated Earl Warren in 1953, the Court's two major opposing...
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