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		<title>World champion Evan Lysacek easily wins Skate America; Yu-na sets world record</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Lysacek wins Skate America; Yu-na wows
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — From Kim Yu-na&#8217;s record-setting performance to Evan Lysacek&#8217;s powerful free skate, it was a great Saturday night for world champions at Skate America.
A couple hours after South Korea&#8217;s Yu-na did about everything but carve 007 into the ice with her world-record 76.28 points in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World champion Evan Lysacek easily wins Skate America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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Lysacek wins Skate America
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — World champion Evan Lysacek won his first Skate America title Saturday night with a powerful free skate.
Lysacek wasn&#8217;t nearly as brilliant as in his short program the previous night, but he didn&#8217;t need to be in besting Canada&#8217;s Shawn Sawyer for the crown. Lysacek hit seven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World champion Kim Yu-na sets record for short program at Skate America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
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World champion Kim sets record
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Kim Yu-na is one straight-shooting Bond girl.
The world champion from South Korea set a world record for a short program Saturday night at Skate America, breaking her own mark with 76.28 points. She capped the mesmerizing performance to a James Bond medley with a marksman&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian pair withdraws after Meagan Duhamel&#8217;s hard fall; China&#8217;s Shen-Zhao win pairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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Canadian pair out after hard fall at Skate America

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Two-time Olympic bronze medalists Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo took a big step toward Vancouver in their comeback when the Chinese pair won Skate America on Saturday.
The free skate was marred by a nasty fall by Canadian Meagan Duhamel, forcing her and Craig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian pair withdraws after Meagan Duhamel&#8217;s hard fall; Shen-Zhao win pairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Canadians withdraw after hard fall
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Canadian pair Meagan Duhamel and Craig Buntin withdrew from Skate America on Saturday when she fell hard to the ice and reinjured her right leg.

Duhamel landed on her shoulder, then banged her head on the ice on a throw triple loop. Buntin immediately skated over and helped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US ice dancers Tanith Belbin, Ben Agosto increase lead at Skate America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Belbin-Agosto win original dance at Skate America

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — The last time folk music was required for the original dance, Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto went the close-to-home route with an American theme.
This time, they&#8217;ve gone Moldavian.
&#8220;Our coaches told us it is not a Russian dance, it is not a Ukrainian dance, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing the White House: music on a higher scale</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MELANCHOLY BALLAD
The first East Room concert for an invited audience took place on Feb. 23, 1883, when Chester Arthur had more than 100 guests hear members of Her Majesty&#8217;s Opera Company sing Mozart, Verdi and Wagner. The star of the evening was famed Canadian soprano Emma Albani, who sang &#8220;Robin Adair&#8221; as her final selection. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Argentine folk legend Mercedes Sosa dies, inspired opponents of Latin America&#8217;s dictatorships</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, the &#8220;voice of Latin America&#8221; whose music inspired opponents of South America&#8217;s brutal military regimes and led to her forced exile in Europe, died Sunday, her family said. She was 74.

Her remains lay in state at the National Congress, where thousands of people — many with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doctors: Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa in &#8216;pharmacological coma,&#8217; organs weakening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Doctors say Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa&#8217;s health is deteriorating further at the Buenos Aires clinic where she is in critical condition.

The Trinidad Clinic says Sosa is in a &#8220;pharmacological coma and breathing with a respirator.&#8221;
According to a statement issued Friday, her prognosis has &#8220;worsened in the last 24 hours.&#8221;
The 74-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Famed Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa hospitalized, breathing with a respirator</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa was in critical condition, breathing on a respirator after suffering liver, kidney, heart and breathing problems. Her son said it&#8217;s a time for prayer.

&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a moment for prayer, for those of us who are believers,&#8221; Matus Sosa said. &#8220;And for those who aren&#8217;t, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Review: David Gray&#8217;s latest &#8216;Draw The Line&#8217; another dash of soulful folk</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/e/2009/09/21/music-review-david-grays-latest-draw-the-line-another-dash-of-soulful-folk-35710/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Gray, &#8220;Draw the Line&#8221; (Downtown/Mercer Street)

David Gray returns from a hiatus with his eighth full-length effort and first in four years, &#8220;Draw the Line.&#8221;
The British folk-rocker made a splash stateside with 2000&#8217;s &#8220;White Ladder&#8221; on the strength of the hit singles &#8220;Babylon&#8221; and &#8220;Please Forgive Me.&#8221; He was nominated for a best new artist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musician who helped revive American folk music, Mike Seeger, dies at 75 in Va. of cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LEXINGTON, Va. —Mike Seeger, who helped revive traditional American folk music, has died at age 75.

Seeger&#8217;s wife, Alexia Smith, said Monday that Seeger died of cancer Friday night at their home in Lexington, Va.
Seeger was born in New York City and raised near Washington, D.C., in a musical family. Two of his siblings became key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Estonians sing en masse to lift spirits dampened by recession</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/e/2009/07/05/estonians-sing-en-masse-to-lift-spirits-dampened-by-recession-14008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jari Tanner</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[TALLINN, Estonia — More than 20,000 choir singers gathered Sunday to fill the air with positive vibes as Estonians took their minds off a crippling recession in a mass celebration of folk songs.

The power of music has lifted the Baltic country&#8217;s spirits before. During five decades of Soviet occupation, Estonians found a rare outlet for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Jimmy Sturr won enough polka album Grammys? Recording industry eliminates his category</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/e/2009/06/05/has-jimmy-sturr-won-enough-polka-album-grammys-recording-industry-eliminates-his-category-7348/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Rogers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES — It&#8217;s enough to make any serious polka fan shove his plate of sausage aside, fling his lederhosen in the closet and go out and shed a few tears in his beer.

The waltz is over for America&#8217;s Polka King, Jimmy Sturr, not to mention every other squeezebox-loving, ompah-dancing fanatic who followed the Grammy [...]]]></description>
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