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...Pharus, who directs the school choir in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s stirring new drama, fights an inclination towards flamboyant gestures. He has a love of music and a passion to express it....
...The through-composed string quartet whizzed through venomous attacks and dulcet plunks; the swing-inflected lines sounded like a score from Ornette Coleman....
...Atlanta, 1996 200m and 400m “This man surely is not human,” said BBC commentator David Coleman, as Michael Johnson won the 200m in a world record time of 19.32 seconds in Atlanta....
...And of all the great gamblers, Alvin Clarence Thomas was king....
...But Minnesota also has a history of electing outsiders, like former governor Jesse Ventura, a wrestler who had been known as “The Body”....
...Minnesota could return Al Franken (above left), the comedian, over Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, in a race complicated by a third candidate....
...Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson . “We spent more than $100bn [€80bn, £54bn] to go into Iraq. Would we be so stingy so as not to spend that on our own people?’’...
...(Mr Humphrey won the nomination but he and Mr Coleman lost to Jesse Ventura, an independent). When Senator Wellstone died in 2002, Walter Mondale was called out of retirement to stand for him....
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