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...Composers featured so far include Walter Arlen, Hans Gal, Erwin Schulhoff, Vilém Tauský and Viktor Ullmann. Haas hopes that exil.arte will reintegrate this music into prewar cultural history....
...But Harold Arlen and Edgar “Yip” Harburg’s song prevailed, transcending its Depression-era origins to become a kind of anthem for America....
...Michael Haas, author of Forbidden Music: The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis, says Arlen is the “quintessential exile composer....
...“He is one of a group of half a dozen truly important songwriters from a golden era, alongside Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin,” says Wilson....
...“Michael Dukakis balanced the budget for 10 years. Does that make him qualified to be president of the United States? I don’t think so.”...
...Harry Reid, the majority leader in the Senate, voted against for procedural reasons while Arlen Specter, the Democrat from Pennsylvania, failed to make it back to the chamber after his humiliating defeat...
...Others, such as Arlen Specter, 79, the formerly Republican and now Democratic senator for Pennsylvania, have been accused of supporting euthanasia for the elderly....
...If Michael Steele, the Republican party’s national chairman, is to be believed, then the defection of Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania senator, to the Democrats on Tuesday was the last nail in America’s 200...
...Compounding its recent miseries, too numerous to mention, Arlen Specter, the independent-minded senator for Pennsylvania, has gone over to the other side....
...Perfect period detail has our hero smoking Park Drives, worrying over a halfpenny and criticising the works of Michael Arlen and Warwick Deeping....
...Mr Obama took questions on a diverse range of subjects including Swine flu, the Taliban, immigration reform, Iraq, abortion, the impact of the economic downturn on African-Americans and the defection of Arlen...
...“Senator Specter didn’t leave the GOP [the Republicans] based on principles of any kind,” said Michael Steele, Republican National Committee chairman....
...Hovering will be Arlen Specter, a Republican until he recently switched parties and a fixture on the committee....
...“Besides Michael Mukasey’s [the out-going attorney-general] brief tenure, it has been a while since we’ve had an attorney-general with Holder’s deep knowledge of how the justice department works.”...
...Conservative Republicans on Wednesday insisted the party was better off without Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania senator who defected to the Democrats, even as moderate Republicans warned that the party risked...
...Mr Limbaugh’s many clones, including Michael Savage, recently banned from Britain, serve as echo-chambers....
...“There are so many Democrats from energy-producing states who are just not going to vote for it,” says Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute, a free-market think-tank....
...Some had hoped that Michael Steele, the first black chairman of the Republican National Committee, would become a symbol of change....
...Democrats and Republicans cautiously welcomed the nomination on Monday of Michael Mukasey, a retired federal judge known for his experience of terrorism trials, to replace Alberto Gonzales as US attorney-general...
...“It really is up to the Congress” to declare the technique illegal, said Arlen Specter, the ranking committee Republican....
...On Thursday there were widespread rumours about the possibility that Michael Chertoff, who heads the Department of Homeland Security, might replace Mr Gonzales if he were forced to resign....
...Arlen Specter, the Republican chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, plans to call executives of the three companies to testify before Congress....
...Arlen Specter (R-PA) – acting at the request of the Bush/Gonzales Justice Department. February 6 It gets better. Now Sen....
...Arlen Specter, Republican chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, this week said the NSA programme violated FISA. But he said it was unclear whether presidential war powers superseded the law....
...Arlen Specter, Republican chairman of the Senate judiciary committee, said on Wednesday he was drafting legislation that would require the administration to seek a ruling from a special US intelligence court...
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