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Henry Darwin, who is no fan of the Environmental Protection Agency, doesn't want the Legislature to shove the federal agency out of Arizona.
Darwin, who heads the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, worries that a final shove aimed at freeing the state from federal intrusion will have the opposite effect.
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CROMWELL, Conn. J.J. Henry shot a 7-under par 63 to grab the third-round lead at the Buick Championship on Saturday before an appreciative hometown crowd.
He's strung together three straight rounds under par and is at 11- under 199 heading into today. It's his first 54-hole lead since joining the PGA Tour in 2000.
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Hitler was a fan, maybe even an apostle of the book's ideas. In "Mein Kampf," Hitler wrote in 1925 that "when this book becomes the common heritage of all people, the Jewish peril can then be considered stamped out.
Henry Ford was another fan of the book. He underwrote the printing of it in translation, serialized it in his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, and supported it with articles that, according to Phyllis Goldstein's "A Convenient Hatred: The History of Anti-Semitism," promised to reveal "The Scope of Jewish Dictatorship in the United States" and "Jewish Degradation of American Baseball" and "The International Jew -- The World's Foremost Problem." In 1922, Goldstein tells us, Ford "turned those articles into a book that sold more than half a million copies."
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As I listened to Kobe Bryant deny any involvement in the firing of his coach, Phil Jackson, and the trading of his teammate Shaquille O'Neal, a line from T.S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral popped into my head.
In the play, closely based on English history, Henry II is involved in a power struggle with the archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. While he can't quite bring himself to order Becket's death, out of frustration he murmurs -- within earshot of his knights -- "Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
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Mountain Heart got its start and made its name as a bluegrass act. And it can still tear up that style with the best of them. But it is not a bluegrass-only act any longer, lead singer/guitarist/ keyboardist Josh Shilling said.
Mountain Heart, which headlines Saturday's New River Land Trust Landjam, finds more money and more followers on the Americana and roots circuit, according to Henry County native Shilling. When Mountain Heart makes a record, it has its devoted fan base in mind, while hoping the new fans will come along.
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Technological possibility is triggering a creative tsunami, as scholar Henry Jenkins has noted. Yesterday's fan culture is now today's popular culture. Look at the many homemade variations on the "Saturday Night Live" appearance by Justin Timberlake singing "Dick in a Box" ("Box in a Box," "Puppet Dick in a Box").
That's not stopping copyright holders from trying to kill it, possibly by accident. Content providers worried about piracy and theft, like NBC Universal and Viacom, are working out deals with online video providers like Veoh and MySpace, for specialized filters and software to identify copyrighted material. These niters will "take down" videos that are copies of copyrighted material. The trouble is, nobody has figured out how to protect online videos that use copyrighted mater...
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Was Red Sox owner John Henry's visit to New Hampshire International Speedway last month more than just a social call on Roush Racing? Henry is a huge NASCAR fan and would relish the opportunity to go racing for the Nextel Cup. He isn't known for doing anything halfway, and even if his foray into racing starts as a sponsorship deal on a car, his long-term goal appears to be owning a team.
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Henry Butler is a big fan of the National Folk Festival.
The New Orleans stride pianist has previously performed three times at the event, and he will be bringing his Game Band to the National tonight through Sunday on the Bangor Waterfront.
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Even the casual baseball fan is familiar with Henry Louis Aaron.
Hammerin' Hank" broke Babe Ruth's mystical home run record of 714 in 1974 and looked on with quiet dignity last summer while Barry Bonds, under the suspicions of steroid use, passed his mark of 755.
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Sometimes brilliant and always strange, the Flaming Lips have defied pop conventions for nearly 30 years. For most of that time the Oklahoma band released its experimental sonic assaults on a major label. It also managed to score gold-sellers with long, unusual titles, like "The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs With Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon.
The Flaming Lips has amassed a cultlike fan base, won three Grammys and critical kudos. But it's the shows - elaborate, fun and weird - that have long cemented the band's reputation.