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A Blog Supreme
2:55 pm
Thu July 12, 2012

Back Home With Canada's Greatest Living Jazz Musician

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Oliver Jones.
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An older publicity photo of Oliver Jones.
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Originally published on Tue September 18, 2012 4:15 pm

A week ago, Oliver Jones — the greatest living jazz musician in Canada — played his hometown Montreal International Jazz Festival, one of the world's largest. "Oliver Jones Plays Oliver Jones," read the bill. It was the first time, he said in a conversation earlier last week, that the pianist, now 77, would be playing strictly his own tunes for an entire set.

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The Two-Way
2:42 pm
Thu July 12, 2012

Nike Announces They Will Take Paterno's Name Off Child Care Center

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Former Penn State Coach Joe Paterno stands with his players in 2009.
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Originally published on Thu July 12, 2012 3:45 pm

The fallout from the independent report on how Penn State handled the sexual abuse allegations by Jerry Sandusky has begun.

Nike has announced that it has removed the name of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno from its child care center in Oregon. Mark Parker, Nike's president and CEO, said he was "deeply saddened" by the results of the investigation.

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It's All Politics
2:25 pm
Thu July 12, 2012

Three Crucial Years Propel Romney's Business Career Back To Center Stage

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Thomas Monaghan (left), founder and chairman of Domino's Pizza, signs an agreement to sell a "significant portion" of his stake in the company to Mitt Romney's Bain Capital, in 1998. Romney, then Bain's CEO, maintains that he left the firm the following year.
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Originally published on Thu July 12, 2012 3:00 pm

Three years might not seem like a big deal when looking back over Mitt Romney's two-decade career with Bain Capital.

But a growing number of journalists — and the Obama campaign — think it is.

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The Two-Way
1:58 pm
Thu July 12, 2012

Wells Fargo Agrees To $175 Million Settlement Over Lending Discrimination

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Wells Fargo has denied claims of lending discrimination and said it's settling "solely for the purpose of avoiding contested litigation with" the Justice Department
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Wells Fargo Bank agreed to pay at least $175 million Thursday to resolve allegations it discriminated against black and Latino home buyers, in what the Justice Department called the second largest settlement over fair lending violations.

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The Two-Way
1:48 pm
Thu July 12, 2012

No Reason To Get Excited, Dylan Says: PBS Has The Wrong Guitar

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Bob Dylan in April 1965, just as he was going electric.
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History Detectives' Elyse Luray (left) and Wes Cowan (right), with Dawn Peterson and the guitar Bob Dylan may or may not have played in '65. Peterson says her father came into possession of the famous instrument.
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Originally published on Thu July 12, 2012 3:48 pm

The sleuths at PBS' History Detectives show think they've had their hands on the guitar Bob Dylan played when he famously (or infamously?) "went electric" at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.

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