Respect at Last for Grieg?
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The centenary of the death of Edvard Grieg, a fiercely proud Norwegian composer, is being acknowledged with several programs in New York.
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He has been immortalised on the big screen, in a beer ad, with a racing cup named in his honour. Yet the fate of Shergar remains an enduring mystery 25 years after the champion stallion was kidnapped.
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Eastwood's wife and children accompanied him at the ceremony Hollywood star Clint Eastwood has been presented with the highest civilian distinction in France, Legion d'honneur, at a ceremony in Paris.Comment
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Flags were at half-mast in Nottingham and Derby today following the death of Brian Clough. Clough won back-to-back European Cups at Forest and reached the semi-final with Derby, leaving his indelible mark on the cities.
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Alex Ferguson has made one final plea to Manchester City supporters to show respect for the Munich victims in Sunday's potentially volatile Manchester derby meeting at Old Trafford.
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DUBLIN (Reuters Life!) - He has been immortalized on the big screen, in a beer ad, with a racing cup named in his honor. Yet the fate of Shergar remains an enduring mystery 25 years after the champion stallion was kidnapped.
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Comment is free: Martin Kettle: The prime minister speaks eloquently on liberty, yet is so cautious about the tradition that is key to delivering it.
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&quot;A notorious person who held the nation to ransom over two decades has finally met his bloody end. His menace has ended. But that is not enough.
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MICHAEL SCHUMACHER was so overcome with emotion yesterday after being crowned world F1 champion for the seventh time - he could barely speak.
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The All Blacks coach was also correct when he said Wales were a team worthy of respect. Whether he showed enough with his team selection is debatable but what is beyond dispute is that
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Tycho:  Gabe keeps coming into the Goddamn office with his Goddamn tales of high adventure, telling me about how there's tokens or some shit in Burning Crusade now, or maybe tiers, and other words I had scoured from my consciousness.  He also says there is hot new five-man content, which initially sounded like pornography.  The comic is correct - I purchased it in a moment of weakness.  As I must often approach you, the cherished reader, to apologize for this or that indiscretion, it may be more appropriate to say that I have moments of strength which are suspended in cowardice and moral decay.
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Luciano Pavarotti, the Italian tenor, was eulogized on Saturday as a âgreat artistâ with âa profound sense of humanity.â
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Roald Amundsen reaches Australia with the news that his Norwegians have taken the South Pole. But Robert Falcon Scott does him one better by dying in the attempt, thereby becoming the legend. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Accolades are often tossed around like confetti when any sport mourns the passing of a legend, but there can be no doubt in describing Brian Clough as âthe best manager who ever livedâ is a simple truth.
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By Will Buss, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 8--George Becker is returning home.   After decades of leadership in Pittsburgh and Washington D.C., the late steel union leader will be laid to rest Friday in his hometown, Granite City.
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FOR those who hoped that the ego had landed after the 2003 Rugby World Cup success, the news that he is resigning from his post as England coach to aim for Sven-Goran Erikssonâs job in football has the foreboding of an embarrassing new chapter for Sir
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It was one of the toughest fights Jorun Lyngstad had experienced during her time as a Norwegian police officer. A wood grouse, Europe's biggest game bird, attacked Lyngstad during a Wednesday bike ride in the woods, ramming the off-duty officer from the side and sending her flying through the air, local media reported.