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Bareilles, a California native and UCLA graduate, is best known for her single “Love Song,” which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100 last year...
...center stage at the Olympic opening ceremonies in Beijing. His YouTube videos generate more views than some Billboard Top 100 artists. His record label Deutsche Gramophone headlines him as nothing less than “the future of classical music”. After a whirlwind of high-profile concerto engagements and an international recital tour brought some critics to dub 2008 the “Year of Lang Lang,” Chinese pianist turned classical music rockstar Lang Lang had a tall order to fill at this past Sunday’s Symphony Hall solo recital, a presentation...
...Smile, you're in Swat," reads a billboard on the main road into the lush green honeymooners' valley in Pakistan once dubbed the "Switzerland of Asia." But over the past two years, Swat has been turned into a playground for the Taliban. And it may be the Taliban and their fellow Islamists who have the biggest reason to smile as a result of the Pakistani government's decision last week to end its floundering military campaign there and instead accept the Taliban's demand for the imposition of Islamic Shari...
This is not the FFRF's first foray into Dayton. In 2002, it was a plaintiff in a court case that ultimately banned Bible classes in Dayton's public schools. "For us, this billboard was really symbolic," Gaylor admits. "We didn't really expect Dayton to be a fertile recruiting ground for us. It's just our statement that they should not suppress knowledge by teaching religion in schools. Their belief is holding them back...
Locals, however, say the whole billboard contretemps is more amusing than controversial. "The billboard right next to it says 'My friend's got mental illness,' " jokes Tom Davis, the public-information director at Bryan College, who has lived in Dayton for 17 years...