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Safin joins entries at Queen's Club

 05-02-2007

LONDON (Reuters) - Former world number one Marat Safin has joined the entry list for next month's Queen's Club tournament, organisers said on Wednesday.

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SAFIN TO PLAY AT QUEEN'S

 05-02-2007

Click here for all the latest tennis results Click here for ATP Tour calendar Click here for WTA Tour calendar Click here for more tennis news Former world number one and two-time Grand Slam winner Marat Safin has joined a host of established stars confirmed for this summer's Artois Championships at Queen's Club.

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Brazilian Sound: Sinatra-Jobim Encounter Resisted These 40 Years

 05-01-2007

Jobim had been enjoying international fame for a while now - he had collaborated with Stan Getz and João Gilberto on the landmark Getz/Gilberto album, which also launched the singing career of Astrud Gilberto, and had already recorded a number of records made for the international market, including The Composer of Desafinado Plays, and his songs were being covered by jazz giants like Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson and Sarah Vaughan.

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Banning offensive words from music

 05-01-2007

Russell Simmons, co-founder of the hip-hop label Def Jam, is asking record companies and other broadcasters to willingly censor three offensive words from songs and the radio, according to The Associated Press. The key word in that sentence is “willingly.” Simmons isn’t asking for the government to intervene, and he isn’t asking performers to stop using those three derogatory terms. He is asking for large companies to voluntarily stop distributing versions of songs that contain them. This isn’t a First Amendment issue. If the recording industry as a whole wants to ban curse words, sexual explicit language and racial epithets, we say, more power to ’em. These companies aren’t obligated to spend their money to distribute material they find objectionable. And if just a few companies comply with the request to deliver songs that don’t contain those words and messages, that’s great. Of course that means the work of rap artists, such as Too $hort, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Insane Clown Posse, Eminem, Akon and Three 6 Mafia, likely wouldn’t reach your ears in the exact way that the artists intended. But is that really so bad? If recorded and mass distributed rap songs didn’t include offensive language, - more available

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Banning offensive words from music

 05-01-2007

Russell Simmons, co-founder of the hip-hop label Def Jam, is asking record companies and other broadcasters to willingly censor three offensive words from songs and the radio, according to The Associated Press. The key word in that sentence is “willingly.” Simmons isn’t asking for the government to intervene, and he isn’t asking performers to stop using those three derogatory terms. He is asking for large companies to voluntarily stop distributing versions of songs that contain them. This isn’t a First Amendment issue. If the recording industry as a whole wants to ban curse words, sexual explicit language and racial epithets, we say, more power to ’em. These companies aren’t obligated to spend their money to distribute material they find objectionable. And if just a few companies comply with the request to deliver songs that don’t contain those words and messages, that’s great. Of course that means the work of rap artists, such as Too $hort, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Insane Clown Posse, Eminem, Akon and Three 6 Mafia, likely wouldn’t reach your ears in the exact way that the artists intended. But is that really so bad? If recorded and mass distributed rap songs didn’t include offensive language, - more available

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Banning offensive words from music

 05-01-2007

Russell Simmons, co-founder of the hip-hop label Def Jam, is asking record companies and other broadcasters to willingly censor three offensive words from songs and the radio, according to The Associated Press. The key word in that sentence is “willingly.” Simmons isn’t asking for the government to intervene, and he isn’t asking performers to stop using those three derogatory terms. He is asking for large companies to voluntarily stop distributing versions of songs that contain them. This isn’t a First Amendment issue. If the recording industry as a whole wants to ban curse words, sexual explicit language and racial epithets, we say, more power to ’em. These companies aren’t obligated to spend their money to distribute material they find objectionable. And if just a few companies comply with the request to deliver songs that don’t contain those words and messages, that’s great. Of course that means the work of rap artists, such as Too $hort, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Insane Clown Posse, Eminem, Akon and Three 6 Mafia, likely wouldn’t reach your ears in the exact way that the artists intended. But is that really so bad? If recorded and mass distributed rap songs didn’t include offensive language, - more available

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