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...wanted it all along - ready to sit across the bargaining table, one on one. The Obama administration said late last week it is willing to negotiate directly with Pyongyang, if only, in the words of State Department spokesman PJ Crowley, to get back to the six-party format invented during the George W. Bush administration...
...singles were the thriving format back then, and that's where PP&M shone. They scored six Top 10 hits and placed seven others in the top 40. Travers' strong lead on "Lemon Tree," a Brazilian folk song for which Will Holt had written new lyrics, gave them their first hit. It was followed by Seeger and Lee Hays' "If I Had a Hammer." The group changed the phrase "all my brothers" to the more ecumenical "my brothers and my sisters" and helped make the number an anthem for the decade's civil-rights movement. Their rendition was a highlight...
...Sept. 9 (09/09/09, for you "Revolution #9" fans), the Rock Band format takes a giant leap, as fans achieve something novel and, in a way, precious: not just meeting the Beatles but getting a taste of how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr felt performing their work onstage or in the studio. In the process, antiquated Beatlemaniacs may be able to forge a bond with kids who just like good music...
...Like the Cirque du Soleil's Las Vegas Beatles show Love, on which both Martins worked, this Rock Band is a grand, meticulous production meant to keep the flame burning and the profits soaring. Both MTV and the music-video-game industry could use the boost: sales in the format are down 46% this year...
...paying their own tuition, and any credits they earn will not count toward their degree. According to Extension School spokeswoman Linda A. Cross, instructors were allowed to submit proposals for courses they would be interested in teaching, and the school selected courses that could be offered in an intensive format. “Courses that involve research papers and projects, for example, wouldn’t work,” Cross wrote in an e-mail. Marlon D. Kuzmick, an Expository Writing preceptor who plans to teach “Multimedia Communication: Principles of Visual Rhetoric” during...