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...Linnaean String Quartet, a group of four musicians from the class of 1995, followed Brown's address with their performance of "Anthem," a movement of a piece composed by Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies. Elkies based the movement on James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing...
...something may be popular and legal without being desirable. An atheist desires public prayer no more than he enjoys the currency and the national anthem, with their affirmations of trust in God. Though some of the original suits against school prayer were supported by atheists, the big numbers against it have always come from religious Americans suspicious of another religion's power plays: Jews fearful of a Christian nation, and liberal Christians fearful of the same thing...
...terrifyingly popular Seattle-based rock group Pearl Jam has released just three full-length albums but has already ripped through all the stages of rock stardom in record time. The group has sung about restless youth (the song Jeremy became a bona fide rock anthem), it has established an adversarial relationship between itself and everyone else on the planet (the band's last album bore the confrontational title Vs.), and, yes, it's made the inevitable pilgrimage to MTV Unplugged. Now what? Having gone from larva to butterfly, does the band flutter to the ground, its brief season done...
...final portion of the ceremony, the crowd was invited to join in the singing of Hatikfah, Israel's national anthem...
...Dixie Carter brought tears to President Bush's eyes Tuesday night when she sang the national anthem." -- USA Today, June...