December 2009
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“It’s staggering really that modern American Christianism supports wealth while...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via azspot:danielholter)
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Shajarian | For Bam →
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Phillip Glass + Blondie / From...
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Pink Floyd / Comfortably Numb, The Wall...
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John Coltrane / Pt. 4:...
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“Why these tapes stayed locked in the vault for nearly half a century — and what...”
– Ella Fitzgerald, Rediscovered: ‘Twelve Nights in Hollywood’ - NYT
It’s paragraphs like this that might actually make me pay for online content.
(via evangotlib)
Verve has just released Twelve Nights in Hollywood, a four-CD boxed set of Ella Fitzgerald singing 76 songs at the Crescendo, a small...
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Die Robin Hood Bankerin →
The 62-year-old branch head of one German bank confessed to transferring money from rich customers to help her poorer clients. She was given a 22-month suspended sentence after moving more than €7.6m (£6.9m) in 117 transfers. The court in Bonn was told that the employee, who has not been named, took no money for herself.
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Iran seizes Ebadi's Nobel Peace medal →
seaofgreen:
soupsoup: asie
The symbolism is staggering.
The truth is, they can never truly take it from her.
In Norway, where the peace prize is awarded, the government said the confiscation of the gold medal was a shocking first in the history of the 108-year-old prize.
They also seized her Legion of Honor and a ring awarded to her by a German association of journalists and froze the bank...
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“Obama reminds me of a chess grandmaster who has played his opening in six...”
– Henry Kissinger
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Ten Things I Have Learned About The Sea →
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