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...Paul Sarbanes was never your identikit US senator, even by today’s outlandish standards. Grandstanding was anathema to him and microphones and cameras could make him run a mile....
...With the help of stylist Dustin Byrd, Brittany wore a Leanne Marshall Nolina top and Claire La Faye trousers paired with Chloé shoes....
...Magnus Granberg and Jürg Frey both took inspiration from early music, atomising pieces by Byrd and Ockeghem respectively, but producing radical results....
...Religion only became important if they got close to royalty — as Tallis, along with Robert Fayrfax and William Byrd, did.”...
...Since then, the song has been covered (mostly live) every which way by a Who’s Who of rock’n’roll, including The Beatles (peppy), The Byrds (copying Brian Jones’ harmonica), Bob Dylan (countrified), Bruce...
...Buy a ‘Finish High ByRD’ if you think the underlying stock or index will go up, buy a Finish Low ByRD if you think the stock or index will go down. The betting chips are in units of $100. Simples....
...But while it helped to launch the careers of Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker, the creative team soon quarrelled and failed to repeat their success....
...But there are tiers below: printed music by such people as William Byrd, the 16th-century English composer, remains accessible, says Cox....
...So are others about Mali, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, along with the biographies of people such as Ron Paul, John Kerry, Pope John Paul II, Donald Trump, Justin Bieber and Jay Leno....
...Throughout the evening Andrew Carwood, director of music at St Paul’s Cathedral and joint founder of The Cardinall’s Musick, put the music in context....
...The score toyed neatly with disparate impulses from Arvo Pärt, Monteverdi, Beethoven, Pérotin and Byrd....
...With the death this week of Robert Byrd, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, the Democrats need Mr Brown’s support to get the legislation through Congress in a final vote expected as soon as Thursday...
...Unless the death of Senator Robert Byrd disrupts the arithmetic, their legislation should reach the statute book within days....
...House and Senate lawmakers agreed to the bill’s language late last week, though the death on Monday of Robert Byrd, a Democrat in the US Senate, put final passage in doubt....
...In West Virginia, Joe Manchin, Democratic candidate, won the race for the Senate seat vacated by the death of Robert Byrd, edging out his Republican rival, John Raese of the Tea Party....
...Actually, his mom is Peggy and dad is that Paul. He inherits the paternal gift for skipping melody and vocal sweetness....
...Paul Volcker, former Federal Reserve chairman, and Carl Levin, the Democratic senator from Michigan, who pushed for an outright ban, were aghast at the changes, according to people familiar with the talks...
...The main work was Byrd’s Mass for Four Voices, set in a reconstruction of a full Mass for the Feast of St Peter and St Paul as it might have been heard in the 1590s....
...“My clients are fighting for their lives in the port of Miami, and the losses they will suffer are very substantial indeed,” said Paul Downes, Eller’s barrister....
...Paul Douglas, a Democrat representing Illinois, laboured for years, Adams-like, to weaken Rule XXII....
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