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Australia’s ‘Climate Choice’ Has Finally Arrived. Will it be enough?

SYDNEY, Australia — Minutes after he took the stage to declare victory in Australia’s upcoming election on Saturday, new Labor Party prime minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to transform climate change from a source of political conflict to a generator of economic growth. “Together we can end the climate wars,” he told his supporters, who …

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Cecil Taylor’s Exciting Set of Jazz Arrived 49 Years Later

Davis noted that Taylor’s technique of composing sheet music “in cells” would later “develop, expand, and subvert” appeal to classical musicians rather than jazz musicians, but today his influence is widely heard among improvised pianists. (He cited a large list that included Marilyn Crispell, Jason Moran, Craig Taborn, Myra Melford, Alexander Hawkins, Angelica Sanchez, and …

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Cecil Taylor’s Exciting Set of Jazz Arrived 49 Years Later

Davis noted that Taylor’s technique of composing sheet music “in cells” would later “develop, expand, and subvert” appeal to classical musicians rather than jazz musicians, but today his influence is widely heard among improvised pianists. (He cited a large list that included Marilyn Crispell, Jason Moran, Craig Taborn, Myra Melford, Alexander Hawkins, Angelica Sanchez, and …

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3 Arrived Taped To The Passenger Seat After The Plane Was Attacked

Authorities said a Frontier Airlines passenger attacked three flight attendants on a weekend flight from Philadelphia to Miami, punching one and groping the breasts of the other two, and asking a crew member to tape him to his seat until the plane lands. Part of the argument was caught on video by fellow passengers taunting …

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A New Novel by John Oliver Killens Arrived 30 Years After His Death

Killens’ Africa is a cartoon that would otherwise be disturbing. But “Minister First” is not a book about Africa. This is America and the author has a lot to say about his homeland, starting with “Jimmy Johnson’s Poop Sheet for Jungle Travel” that the fake prime minister wrote the night before his Washington visit and …

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Inflation Has Arrived, But Washington Is Not Competing To Limit Price Pops

Prices rose more than Fed officials expected, according to both their public statements and their statements. economic projections from earlier this year. Why the big jump? Some owe it to temporary data quirks that are expected to push inflation even higher this year. Part of this came as airfare, hotel rooms and other purchase prices …

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Washington Post Correspondents’ Attempt to Seize Email Data Arrived One Day Ago

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department searched the email records of three Washington Post reporters a day before William P. Barr stepped down as attorney general and made a final effort to identify who had told the paper about conversations between Trump campaign officials and the Russian ambassador. showing new unsealed court documents. The December 22 …

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