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...have be gorgeous or too old. Sounds like your bottle was neither. Paul A bit of a drift: has anyone drunk the '91 Leroy Corton Charlemagne? The reds from that year are stunning, but I've never seen a note on her lone Domaine Leroy white. Its been a few years...
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...and mesmerising lyrics. A full orchestra, heavy metal musicians, choir and special guest vocalists bring the legend of Charlemagne to life. For more info and sound samples visit www.myspace.com/charlemagnemusical . Charlemagne – S/T (Release Year – 2009)...
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Revolver Blips
http://revolverblips.dailyradar.com/story/charlemagne-christopher-lee-on-myspace-music/
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Nick Cannon has tapped “Hood State of The Union” hosts Lil Duval and Charlemagne Tha God, for their own MTV show appropriately called “Hatin.”
“It’s like Wild ‘N Out meets Best Week Ever,” Charlemagne, a former radio personality for Philadelphia’s 100.3
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Vibe
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The Regional Planning Commission is also scheduled to review plans for an AT&T cell tower site at 3892 Head Road, later this month.
A Clarksville Area Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting ceremony is set for 10 a.m. Monday at the new Tammy's Toning Beds &
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Leaf Chronicle
http://theleafchronicle.com/article/20091219/BUSINESS/912190331/1046/RSS08
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SIR – You accurately highlighted the complicated circumstances surrounding the political turmoil in Honduras and rightly questioned the level of perfection of its recent election (“Honduras defies the world”, December 5th). However, I firmly refute
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15124933&fsrc=rss
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AS A rule in the European Union, the grandeur of somebody’s office is inversely related to the sexiness of their work. This is especially true in foreign policy. In Brussels the dingy Justus Lipsius building hosts officials who negotiate with Iran and
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15127624&fsrc=rss
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ONE of the great studies of decline is a novel about a fictional Sicilian prince, living more than a century ago. There is much about Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s “The Leopard” that is remote now: peasants paying their rent with wheels of cheese and freshly
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15065405&fsrc=rss
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IS SWITZERLAND preparing to embrace the world more closely, to the point of contemplating joining the European Union? The suggestion may seem absurd just after the Swiss have voted to ban the construction of minarets on mosques, earning stern rebukes
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15016062&fsrc=rss
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the world in a window
America heeds Russia's call for new "security architecture" in Europe, supplanting Nato
Give us 15 minutes of your time, and we will give you everything that matters in the world. Editor, Robert Cottrell; Managing Partner, Al
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The Browser
http://thebrowser.com/content/new-balance-europe-charlemagne-economist-19-november-2009
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IN THEORY, Russian diplomats accredited to NATO are welcome friends: the reality is murkier. For more than a decade now, Russian officials have been trusted to roam the alliance’s maze-like headquarters in Brussels just like envoys from other “partner
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14915170&fsrc=rss
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A FEW times a year, Charlemagne has the luck to teach students at a European management school in Paris. It is an enlightening experience (for your columnist, at least). One popular question has been why some European Union policies are so contentious
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Economist
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/vzEJXIBOqaQ/story01.htm
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I’d use my platform here at XXL to let the world know that, if anything bad happens to me, it was probably Jay-Z’s fault, but the post would probably just disappear, and then something bad would happen to me. Jay-Z is sneaky like that.
Charlemagne the
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XXL
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SOME time ago, just before the European Union enlarged to take in new members from Estonia to Cyprus, two senior EU officials debated an interesting question: with so many governments to consult, how on earth would Javier Solana—the Spaniard who has
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14753874&fsrc=rss
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THERE are two ways of looking at the saga of Opel, the European carmaker being sold by General Motors with the help of some €4.5 billion ($6.7 billion) in German state aid. The first, gloomy view is that the Germans have mounted a shocking assault on
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14699583&fsrc=rss
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TO UNDERSTAND one of the gulfs separating the Anglo-Saxon world from continental Europe, consider Warren Buffett’s children. Omaha’s sage investor long ago said he would leave most of his fortune to charity, with more modest sums to his offspring. For
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14644403&fsrc=rss
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-Poetry-
Ripstick rash, cryptic cash
Gone forever, shod in bast
Our affluence did never last
Though avarice transcended class
Crucifix, home for hicks
Just a couple bloody sticks
Go ahead and find your fix
An instigate apocalypse
All redacted,
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The Cowl
http://www.thecowl.com/news/2009/10/08/Portfolio/Charlemagne-3796711.shtml
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A PARISH council would not choose a chairman before his role and powers had been agreed. A corner shop would not select two bosses without deciding which carried more clout. Not so the European Union, which is preparing to choose two new bosses without
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14586858&fsrc=rss
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A “FLASHING yellow light”. That is how one American official describes warning signs of trouble between his administration and Europe. Less than a year after Barack Obama’s election, European euphoria over the end of the Bush era is fading. Relations
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14539983&fsrc=rss
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Fund manager Charlemagne Capital said assets under management rose 9 percent in the six months to end-June as improving market conditions tempted investors back into equities.
The group, which specializes in emerging markets equities, said assets under
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Dealbook
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/charlemagne-capital-posts-rise-in-assets-under-management/
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FOR all its grand central squares and lively cultural scene, the Belgian port of Antwerp is not always a happy town. Flemish old-timers share its gritty streets with Arabs, Africans, Asians and, in the diamond district, Hasidic Jews. Race relations are
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14447929&fsrc=rss
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TURKEY’S friends inside the European Union believe that history is on their side. Ask these national politicians, diplomats and EU officials if they think Turkey will one day achieve full membership, and they answer that it must. In a decade or two,
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14363116&fsrc=rss
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Here in the middle, in the rabbit warren of streets around the famous cathedral, there is hardly an ugly vista or boring street
Photo: GETTY
If atlases were arranged according to the same principles as the Yellow Pages,
Aachen would head the list
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The Telegraph
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THE end of August brings a back-to-school mood to Brussels, where summer holidays are still taken seriously. For a month the glass and concrete canyons of the city’s European Quarter are deserted. Then suddenly everyone is back: tanned from summers by
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14303607&fsrc=rss
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Anthony Siano, left, 22, of Largo laughs with Danny Charlemagne, center, of Clearwater and Owen Thomas of Clearwater at Charlemagne’s Ideal Kutz barber shop in Largo. Thomas was preparing to hang a “Grand Opening” sign at the shop.
At age 12, Danny
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TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
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GATHER together assorted business types—travel agent, house builder, car dealer, advertising executive—and ask them why times are hard. They will surely finger the same culprit: the global economic crisis. Then visit the protests being staged by dairy
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14170799&fsrc=rss
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WHY does the thought of a “President Tony Blair” in Europe make people so cross? Something about the idea sends prominent euro-politicians into paroxysms. Take Daniel Cohn-Bendit, co-leader of the Green faction in the European Parliament: he calls a
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14121724&fsrc=rss
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IN THE European Union it is often tempting to reduce policy debates to clashes between old rivals like France, Britain and Germany. It is not only journalists who are guilty. A few years ago, it is said, Britain’s permanent EU representation invited
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14082324&fsrc=rss
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IN MARCH 1850 Antoine Wiertz, an artist, wrote to the newish Belgian government offering a swap: his largest paintings in exchange for the construction of a “huge, comfortable and well-lit” studio. Somewhat surprisingly, his proposal was accepted. The
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13993088&fsrc=rss
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HERE are three Europeans, talking about the best way to help car workers in the recession. For the first, the state must use “all means necessary” to preserve key industries: ie, give carmakers billions of euros. In return, it is “quite normal” to ask
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13941289&fsrc=rss
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“At his court at Aachen, Charlemagne assembled learned men from all over Europe. The most important scholar and the leader of the palace school was the Northumbrian Alcuin (ca 735-804). From 781 until his death, Alcuin was the emperor’s chief adviser
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Brussels Journal
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/3992
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SOME years ago, when Charlemagne was living in China, he heard complaints that the kangaroo in Beijing Zoo was a very dull animal. The “pouch rat” (as kangaroos are known in Mandarin) just sat there looking miserable, it was said. It did not jump or
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13899661&fsrc=rss
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SO FAR this recession has not been all bad for Europe. Above all, the past few months have looked good for the European concept of “flexicurity”. First coined in Denmark, this is an appalling word for an appealing idea: that Europeans will tolerate
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Economist
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/uHYf0AkTeLw/story01.htm
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AT ONE point on his travels Captain Lemuel Gulliver visits an academy filled with mad scientists. Their experiments are all odd. But what makes them mad is that they are repeated, again and again, whenever they fail. One scientist has spent eight years
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Economist
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/BXNzUM3AidQ/story01.htm
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Since the formation of the first state, people around the world were trying to understand who is the most influential and the most powerful country in the world, country that make decisions on some of the most important issues related to our lives and
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Dominican Today
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/opinion/2009/6/8/32236/Pertinent-historical-question-Which-country-really-rules-the-World
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...to Clarksville Police Department spokesman Officer Jim Knoll, two juveniles have been shot on Charlemagne Boulevard. Emergency scanner traffic indicates at least one of the victims is a teenager, who was shot in the leg. Knoll said both victims were taken...
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Leaf Chronicle
http://theleafchronicle.com/article/20090607/NEWS01/90607003/1002/rss
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One of the world's oldest and most famous chairs sits in Aachen, Germany, where the legendary Charlemagne lived, reigned, and died in the early ninth century. The colossal marble structure witnessed Napoleon and Czar Alexander bow before its grandeur.
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Philly.com
http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=168151&44=47025402&32=3796&7=195427&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Fphilly%2Fhome%2F20090605_What_s_fitting_for_sitting.html
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One of the world's oldest and most famous chairs sits in Aachen, Germany, where the legendary Charlemagne lived, reigned, and died in the early ninth century. The colossal marble structure witnessed Napoleon and Czar Alexander bow before its grandeur.
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Philly.com
http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=47025402&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20090605_What_s_fitting_for_sitting.html
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One of the world's oldest and most famous chairs sits in Aachen, Germany, where the legendary Charlemagne lived, reigned, and died in the early ninth century. The colossal marble structure witnessed Napoleon and Czar Alexander bow before its grandeur.
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Philly.com
http://www.philly.com/r?19=961&43=166846&44=47025402&32=3796&7=195507&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.philly.com%2Finquirer%2Fmagazine%2F20090605_What_s_fitting_for_sitting.html
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ATTACKS on José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, have intensified before the European election held between June 4th and 7th, and ahead of a European Union summit when national leaders will discuss his reappointment to a second
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Economist
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/v-DoWL95deA/story01.htm
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ATTACKS on José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, have intensified before the European election held between June 4th and 7th, and ahead of a European Union summit when national leaders will discuss his reappointment to a second
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Economist
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/v-DoWL95deA/story01.htm
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The rise of Germany, Europe's long lasting ruler, started with the Franks, a West Germanic tribal confederation first attested in the 3rd century. The Franks inhabited and ruled the territory called Francia also known as Frankish Empire, Kingdom of
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News Blaze
http://newsblaze.com/story/20090603075052simi.nb/topstory.html
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IN BRITAIN it was the duck-house. For many, this floating pavilion, claimed on parliamentary expenses by a Conservative knight of the shires, revealed something rotten about the House of Commons. In Spain earlier this year, hostile headlines centred on
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Economist
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/UkBXZCfDBio/story01.htm
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IN BRITAIN it was the duck-house. For many, this floating pavilion, claimed on parliamentary expenses by a Conservative knight of the shires, revealed something rotten about the House of Commons. In Spain earlier this year, hostile headlines centred on
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Economist
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/economist/full_print_edition/~3/UkBXZCfDBio/story01.htm
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...policy chief Javier Solana and Pope John Paul II. The prize is presented every year in Aachen Cathedral, the burial place of Charlemagne (768-814 A.D.) and the capital of his medieval European empire. He is considered one of the most renowned and powerful emperors...
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Deutsche Welle
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4269817,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
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HEARD the one about Irish voters and the European Union? Brussels Euro-types think they know how the joke ends, and are chortling already. Last June Ireland held a referendum on the Lisbon treaty, and the voters returned a decisive No. The main causes,
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13690593&fsrc=rss
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HEARD the one about Irish voters and the European Union? Brussels Euro-types think they know how the joke ends, and are chortling already. Last June Ireland held a referendum on the Lisbon treaty, and the voters returned a decisive No. The main causes,
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13690593&fsrc=rss
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FOR a man facing the threat of bankruptcy in six months’ time, thanks to European Union sanctions on his country, Stefan Petrov has pretty warm words for Brussels. Mr Petrov is a dairy farmer from the rolling hills of northern Bulgaria. Two-and-a-half
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13643955&fsrc=rss
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FOR a man facing the threat of bankruptcy in six months’ time, thanks to European Union sanctions on his country, Stefan Petrov has pretty warm words for Brussels. Mr Petrov is a dairy farmer from the rolling hills of northern Bulgaria. Two-and-a-half
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13643955&fsrc=rss
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ON BILLBOARDS across Europe, blue posters have popped up alerting citizens to the forthcoming elections to the European Parliament. The posters, parliament’s own initiative, make a reasonable stab at a hard task: explaining what is at stake when voters
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Economist
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13610228&fsrc=rss
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"The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger"
Alec Wilkinson
Alfred A. Knopf, 176 pp., $22
Alec Wilkinson wanted to write a specific kind of book about legendary folksinger Pete Seeger: "a small, descriptive book, a long essay -- a
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NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2009/05/books_as_seeger_turns_90_the_p.html
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