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Syrian warplanes bomb rebel-held town, 20 killed

AZAZ, Syria—Syrian fighter jets screamed through the sky Wednesday over this rebel-held town, dropping bombs that leveled the better part of a poor neighborhood and wounded scores of people, many of them women and children buried under piles of rubble. Activists said more than 20 people were killed. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights [...]

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About Internship

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited is one of India…s leading television, media and entertainment companies. it is amongst the largest producers and aggregators of Hindi programming in the world, with an extensive library housing over 80,000 hours of television content. with rights to more than 3,000 movie titles from foremost studios and of iconic film stars, [...]

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Brough’s tilt for Fisher may be challenged

AAP Senior Liberals have dealt a blow to Howard government minister Mal Brough’s bid for pre-selection in Speaker Peter Slipper’s Queensland seat. Liberals including Malcolm Turnbull are publicly backing star political strategist James McGrath, who is also seeking Liberal National Party preselection in Mr Slipper’s seat of Fisher. Mr Turnbull, fellow Liberal MP Jamie Briggs, [...]

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Review: ‘Once’ star Hansard familiar in solo album

Glen Hansard, “Rhythm and Repose” (Anti-) That Glen Hansard is only now releasing a solo album after two decades feels like something of a technicality. “Rhythm and Repose” will seem familiar for both fans of his Irish rock band The Frames and latecomers who didn’t stumble on his brood-then-belt style until his starring role in [...]

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Papelbon shakes off drama, shuts down former team

And excellent command of his pitches Friday night at Citizens Bank Park. The former Boston-turned-Philadelphia closer finished off the Phillies’ 6-4 win with his 12th save this season. he retired three of the four hitters he faced to move Philadelphia (21-19), owner of a six-game winning streak, to two games over .500 for the first [...]

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Bert: The Life And Times Of AL Lloyd

Dave Arthur’s biography encompasses not only those early beginnings but the breadth of Lloyd’s contribution to translation, radio documentary, ethnographic film, industrial song, folklore, poetry, broadcasting, magazine journalism, teaching and radical politics. It’s a riveting story of a man, his friends, relations, triumphs, tragedies, his wide-ranging influence and his ideas. Returning to London from Australia [...]

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Mariss Jansons: ‘The notes are just signs. You have to go behind them’

Shoulders down, elbows relaxed, forearms doing the work: the stance is perfect for a conductor. the left hand is shaping the sound; the right, neat and commanding, clasps the baton. look more closely. is it in fact a pencil? There’s something odd about the score lying open on a satin footstool, with no sign of [...]

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Magdalena Kožená: ‘I’m not scared of the big maestro’

Magdalena Kožená believes musicians fall into two categories. “There are people who love to work with their partners and those who simply can’t,” she says. it is, she admits, “fortunate that I’m the first case”: the celebrated Czech mezzo-soprano’s husband happens to be conductor Simon Rattle. What’s the main advantage of being married to the conductor? [...]

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Proms 2012: a season of pleasant surprises

The BBC always keeps its secrets better than most where the contents of the Proms are concerned, so that each year’s programme announcement when it comes always brings its share of pleasant surprises. There seem to be more of those than usual this time, and there’s no doubt that Roger Wright and his team have [...]

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Link to the Past

Spent a good part of today at the Winston Link Museum in Roanoke’s old Norfolk & Western Railway Passenger Station. Link, a new York-based commercial photographer, spent eight years of his life documenting the final days of steam locomotives on the N&W, the last major railway to switch to diesel. He paid for the project [...]

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