Monthly Archives: February 2012

Whitney Houston Duet With Serge Gainsbourg 1986

February 12, 2012 – 10:05 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef87G5MDYfM&feature=related

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Whitney Houston RIP

February 12, 2012 – 10:02 am

Whitney Houston burst onto the music scene in 1986, scoring # 1 hits with “Saving All My Love for You”, “Thinking About You” and “Greatest Love of All,” and WHITNEY HOUSTON was that year’s top-selling LP. The next year she scored a mega-hit with her single I WANNA LOVE SOMEBOY. Success after success propelled Whitney […]

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VAN RONK / Tom Russell

February 11, 2012 – 2:58 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MTnKO_eUc8 Van Ronk was the best of the best. I was blessed to have seen him in Harvard Square many times and Tom Russell’s elegy touches my soul with his elegant reincarnation of one man’s gift to an era and a world. Excuse me, but this old man has dust in his eyes.

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Attica In Trang Prison

February 10, 2012 – 7:41 pm

In August 1971 over half the inmates at New York’s Attica State Prison took control of the correction facilities in response to a prisoner being subjected to torture in his cell. 33 officers held hostage by the rioters and state officials agreed to most of the demands, however Governor Rockefeller refused to grant amnesty and […]

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Oipho IMF

February 10, 2012 – 10:15 am

Western culture hails ancient Greece as the birthplace of its civilization. Throughout the 5th through 4th centuries BC Greece formed the basis of politics, architecture, art scientific thought, literature, and philosophy, but the nation has fallen on hard times due to its inescapable debt crisis for not following the classical advice Mēdèn ágan or nothing […]

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