The Byrds
The Byrds began as a folk-rock band in 1965 led by Jim McGuinn (later renamed Roger following his conversion to Subud). The harmonies arranged by David Crosby and McGuinn's electric t...
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Japan decided Thursday to continue to impose 15 percent punitive
tariffs on U.S. ball bearings and steel products for another year to
retaliate against the continued implementation of a U.S. ...
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"Sneaky" Pete Kleinow, a steel guitar prodigy who rose to fame as one of the original members of the Flying Burrito Brothers, has died. He was 72.Kleinow, who also worked in film as an award-winnin...
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In a cramped laboratory, graduate student Nazia Ahmed tinkers with a radar system that will soon withstand some of the harshest conditions on Earth. Across campus, Richard Hale is putting the final...
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Today is Friday, July 13, the 194th day of 2007. There are 171 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On July 13, 1793, French revolutionary writer Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death ...
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The hummingbird-voiced harpist Joanna Newsom played the first of two shows with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at BAM last night, and it wasn’t cutesy or quirky or kitschy.
It was glorious.
But fo...
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Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's move to repeal President Bush's authority for the Iraq war amounts to a do-over _ an effort to rectify her most glaring vulnerability among presidential pri...
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Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 8-14:July 8: Singer Jerry Vale is 75. Singer Steve Lawrence is 72. Actor Jeffrey Tambor ("Arrested Development," "The Larry Sanders Show") is 63. Actress Ki...
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McDonald's Japan reports interim net profit for 1st time since 2004
TOKYO - McDonald's Holdings Co. (Japan) reported Thursday a
group net profit of 3.16 billion yen in the first ...
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Country radio has had a rough go of it in the big city.New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco all have seen country stations fail in recent years.But the return of country to the FM airwaves this ...
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This year's BookExpo America will be a story of networking, the old way and the new.Starting Thursday, thousands of authors, publishers, booksellers and librarians will gather at the Jacob Javits C...
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The Byrds
Japan to extend retaliatory steps over U.S. antidumping law by 1 more yr
