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Music Review: Garrison Keillor With the New York Philharmonic
Neuilly :: France | 8 months ago
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Music Review A Night of Songs and (Mostly) Looking Back Garrison Keillor With the New York Philharmonic Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Garrison Keillor appeared with the New York Philharmonic, led by Rob Fisher, behind Mr. Keillor, to celebrate his
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Bill Jones: Distance swimming in the ocean
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 9 months ago
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Diana Nyad, a well-known record-holding endurance distance swimmer, made the attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. Given all the currents and the ebb and flow of the tides, it is a distance of over 100 miles. This made for quite a little plunge in
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Diana Nyad's impossible dream should be saluted, not scorned | Jill Homer
Jacksonville :: FL :: USA | 10 months ago
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Diana Nyad's straits of Florida is a metaphor for any number of challenges people believe they'll never overcome.' Photograph: Adalberto Roque/AFP/Getty Images After her fourth failed attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida, Diana Nyad said the 103-mile
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Lowry: Miracles that finds us in the swim of things
Havana :: Cuba | 10 months ago
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In case you didn't hear, the unsinkable long-distance swimmer reluctantly gave up her quest this week to swim the Florida Straits, the waters that lie between Cuba and Key West...This time marked her fourth attempt to conquer them since she was in
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Nyad ends Cuba-to-Florida swim bid
Jacksonville :: FL :: USA | 10 months ago
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Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt in nearly 35 years to swim across the Straits of Florida yesterday, her dream of setting a record thwarted by storms, jellyfish stings, shark threats, hypothermia and swollen lips. The swimmer was pulled from the
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Diana Nyad to try Cuba swim again
Havana :: FL :: USA | 10 months ago
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Meeting Nyad, it's instantly obvious there's something different about her...On Sunday, more than 30 years after her last competitive swim, she will once again take to the waters of the Straits of Florida to attempt the 103-mile swim. It's her fourth
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Diana Nyad making fourth attempt at Cuba-to-Florida swim
Havana :: FL :: USA | 10 months ago
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Stay tuned to CNN and CNN.com for updates on Diana Nyad's latest attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. (CNN) -- If the name Diana Nyad sounds familiar, it's probably because you've heard of her incredible feats of human performance -- before people
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In praise of … Garrison Keillor at 70 | Editorial
London :: United Kingdom | 11 months ago
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In praise of Garrison Keillor at 70 His plaintive evocation of local, non-metropolitan America has become embedded in the nation's urban radio audience Editorial Abroad he is known as an author, but Garrison Keillor, the gentle giant of American
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'Prairie Home' alum taking over at Northrop
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 11 months ago
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A onetime producer of Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" is coming home to be director of Northrop Auditorium at the University of Minnesota. Christine Tschida's selection was announced by the university Monday, and she will assume her
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Grace Keillor, mother of Garrison, dies at 97
Minneapolis :: MN :: USA | 11 months ago
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Grace Keillor, the mother of iconic Minnesota author and broadcaster Garrison Keillor, died Friday at her home in Brooklyn Park, her son said in a news release. She was 97. "Mother had a good long life and was still lucid a couple weeks ago, and even
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