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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
HeraldDispatch: "What do Ava Maria, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, The Star Spangled Banner and the Japanese folk song, Sakura, have in common?
On most days not much, but these songs are just a small sample of the deep-and-wide repertoire of Hawaiian ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro, who has been taking the uke on its own wild ride."
11:35:49 AM 
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Whittam Smith: "Julian Baggini's new book, Welcome to Everytown: A journey into the English mind, has disturbed assumptions I have long held about myself as well as about English society.
I share England's tradition of toleration, what Mr Baggini calls its dominant philosophical concept. Let us all be English in whatever way we choose, and as long as your Englishness doesn't threaten mine, it doesn't matter if it's different. Yes. However, it turns out that English toleration has its limits. The 'we' which is the English mainstream has no problem with illiberal measures that infringe the liberties of 'them' for the sake of 'us'."
Independent: "In remarks which he himself described as 'high treason', Fry suggested that Britons could be over-rated in the US because of their accent and the 'brittle contrivances' of their acting style."
11:31:35 AM
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