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Actor takes comfort in songs of band he once ridiculed
Los Angeles TimesThere was a time in Colin Firth's youth when he regarded the music of ABBA with the same disdain he saved for, say, a Jane Austen novel. Austen? "Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole," he said. "It seemed girl stuff." And ABBA, the musical inspiration...Tags: D.H. Lawrence, Benny Andersson, ABBA, Jane Austen, Colin Firth
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Glance: NJ school construction plans
School construction projects, by community, announced this week by the New Jersey Schools Development Authority, with total cost estimates, including money previously spent: _ Asbury Park: New elementary school ($38.4 million) _ Bridgeton: Broad...Tags: Elementary Schools, Phillipsburg, Local Authority, High Schools, Burlington
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'In Search of the Black Fantastic' by Richard Iton
Special to The TimesJuly 10, 2008 When Paul Robeson declared, at the height of Cold War tensions, that black Americans would never fight for a nation that had "oppressed us for generations" in a war against the Soviet Union, the actor and civil rights advocate ignited a...Tags: Disasters, Demonstration, Eddie Murphy, Political Candidates, Northwestern University
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Chicago teen fatally hit by car in Des Moines
Chicago Tribune reporterA Chicago Public Schools student was visiting his mother in Des Moines, just days after his 17th birthday, when he was struck by a car and killed while in-line skating, authorities said Monday. Marcus Harrington was on his way to the store during his...Tags: Vehicles, Chicago Public Schools, Schools
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Bursting the AP bubble
I'M AN AP DROPOUT. When classmates in my Advanced Placement U.S. history course take the AP exam Friday, I won't be with them. When they pick up their pencils and start filling in those little bubbles, I'll be reading the words of George Kennan, Lillian...Tags: American Revolutionary War, University of Chicago, High Schools, Schools, Harry S Truman
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'Peace heroes' may lead us astray
Charles Derber and Yale Magrass write in their column "Rethinking 'war hero'" (Commentary, April 21) that "The peace hero - even more than the war hero - should be the ultimate moral force in the world we now inhabit." I wonder what "ultimate moral...Tags: Pete Seeger, Jane Fonda, Adolf Hitler, Massacres, Folk Music
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Vintage musicals aging well
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- "Finally my mother can see something I've done," said opera singer Nathan Gunn, "that she actually likes." The 37-year-old baritone was speaking of tonight's concert version of the pioneering musical "Show Boat," the centerpiece of a season-...Tags: Reba McEntire, Irving Berlin, The White House, Florenz Ziegfeld, Tickets
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Is America ready for a real black president?
South Florida Sun-SentinelSOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL OP-ED ONLINE Is America Ready for a Real Black President? By Norm Vance Are you ready for a peanut butter and hamburger sandwich? Not sure? Yet someone in Bluffton, Indiana insists it was a favorite of her father and herself....Tags: Armed Forces, Michael Bloomberg, Political Candidates, Major League Baseball, Henry Wallace
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Student stabbed in Brooklyn high school
A student was stabbed by a classmate Friday at a public high school, which was locked down after the confrontation, the city's second school lockdown in as many days. The 18-year-old was wounded in the right shoulder at about noon in the basement of Paul...Tags: Police Investigations, Schools, Police Arrests, Injuries, High Schools
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Homage to the blues in 'Honeydripper'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comSet in rural Alabama in 1950, John Sayles' latest is a golden-hued fairy tale about the moment when a jolt of electric current turned the front-porch blues into modern rock and roll. In this mythical version of the South, the freight trains moan like...Tags: Danny Glover, Movies, Charles S Dutton, Music, Alabama
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