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Briton joins Iranian Press TV as presenter (Calcutta News)
Britain born journalist Yvonne Ridley, who was taken into custody by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2000, is now working as a TV presenter for Iranian Press TV after converting to Islam to honour her promise to captors.

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Rogers Television helps to nab Toronto murder suspect (680 News)
Toronto - Toronto police credited the media and Rogers Television, in particular, for helping them find a murder suspect who's been on the run since 2005.

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Music Review: State Radio - Year Of The Crow (Blogcritics.org)
The most passionately honest music since the Clash. These guys could very well be the next "only band that matters." Have you ever noticed some bands just feel too big to listen too indoors? There's something about their sound, or their energy, that makes you feel you need to have open space around you when play their music because the walls of the building you're sitting in are somehow or …

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Texarkana College s Chamber Music Series brings Goldberg Variations (Texarkana Gazette)
A last-minute addition to Texarkana College s Chamber Music Series means local classical music fans can hear Johann Sebastian Bach s Goldberg Variations.

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12-Year-Old New Yorker's Music Makes It To Pyongyang (Arts Journal)
Lost in all the hype over the New York Philharmonic's trip to North Korea was the fact that the trip to Pyongyang marked the international debut of a new piece of music by a 12-year-old composer.

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Movies: Want to boost the Oscar telecast's ratings? Add movie ads (The Salt Lake Tribune)
The movie that won the Best Picture Oscar of 1952 - the first time the Academy Awards ceremony was televised, on March 19, 1953 - was "The Greatest Show on Earth.

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