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...The poor stay poor, the rich get rich,” Leonard Cohen sang in his 1988 hit “Everybody Knows”....
...Sang says new security measures are needed. “If things are not done now, with the [next] election we could have a similar scenario of violence,” he adds....
...“Working five to nine, you’ve got passion and a vision,” she sang. “It's hustling time, a whole new way to make a living.”...
...All the while, the accompanying images attest to her otherworldly beauty, and her effortless ability to upstage everyone, from Brooke Shields in the 1980s to Bjork in the 2000s....
...A new guide by Brooke Masters sets out the five essentials....
...“Our youth, oh youth, are being seduced/ By the greedy hands of politics and half-truths,” sang Matt Johnson over guitar arpeggios from Johnny Marr, late of The Smiths....
...Bono sang, and Disney rescheduled its earnings call so that chief executive Bob Iger could attend. Even Barack Obama, the US president, described himself as “heartbroken”....
...Morning, however, brought a Wallacean triumph: Trogonoptera brookiana – Rajah Brooke’s birdwing....
...Rupert Brooke, writing in autumn 1914, had spoken for many in his generation when he greeted the outbreak of hostilities as a rebirth for Europe....
...Another new song “Missing Pieces” imagined love as dismemberment; on keyboards Brooke Waggoner gave it a jaunty swing....
...And in the closing lines it’s as if the poem dissolves into birdsong: “And for that minute a blackbird sang/Close by, and round him, mistier,/ Farther and farther, all the birds/ Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire...
...So when I went to photograph her in the late 1950s I bought her a record player and she sang the song for me....
...Instead, she sang us all a love song. That same beatific spirit was at play in her inpromptu set in the West End on Tuesday....
...Perhaps Elton John had it right when he sang, “Sorry seems to be the hardest word”. The aphorism certainly seems to hold true when it comes to bankers in the current financial crisis....
...These included Brooke Shields, Terri Garr and John Travolta, who before his role in Saturday Night Fever sang the tune in the shower with two other men - a boo boo he recovered from. observer@ft.com...
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