Tuesday, 2 March 2004
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Beatle-mopped Californian Kent Nagano MSO's next music...
Beatle-mopped Californian Kent Nagano MSO's next music director, Arthur Kaptianis, Montreal Gazette, 3/2/2004 [La Scena Musicale - News] 'It is an extraordinary catch for both the MSO's musicians and the city. Nagano has been touted as a potential successor to Daniel Barenboim at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and even Lorin Maazel at the New York Philharmonic.' Exciting news.
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USATODAY.com - U.N.: Iraq had no WMD after 1994
A report from U.N. weapons inspectors to be released today says they now believe there were no weapons of mass destruction of any significance in Iraq after 1994, according to two U.N. diplomats who have seen the document
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Bush plays politics with 9/11
Republican speculation that Bush may use ground zero as a convention backdrop has some 9/11 victims' families appalled. [Salon]
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Book explores reason behind the rhyme
Education: Jack and Jill went up in the hill anxious to lose their virginity, according to a social historian who has published a book documenting the real stories behind the nation's favourite nursery rhymes. [Guardian Unlimited] I became conscious of the sexual themes in nursery rhymes when I started reading them to my first daughter. 'Master's lost his fiddlin' stick and don't know what to do'?
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Warner Music cuts workforce 20%
The global music giant makes 'painful changes' as Canadian tycoon Edgar Bronfman takes formal control of the company. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
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Cooke posts last Letter from America
Media: Alistair Cooke, the presenter of BBC Radio 4's Letter from America, is retiring from the world's longest running speech radio programme after more than half a century. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Pakistan denies US Bin Laden deal
The Pakistani Government strongly denies claims it plans to allow US troops on its soil to hunt for Osama Bin Laden. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] Doubtless they are already there.
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