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...winners have had a chance to get to know each other - virtually, that is. In addition to their audition, each winner posted an introductory video. Dressed in a kimono, Maki Takafuji, who lives in Kyoto, Japan, plays a brief marimba solo and talks about her music education. Jim Moffat, a horn player who works in technology marketing in the U.K., introduces himself with London Bridge in the background. Nina Perlove, a flutist from Cincinnati, Ohio, begins her video aspirationally, by playing the song "New York, New York." David France, a violinist who teaches at the Bermuda School of Music, greets...
...After a brief history of Ghana’s political system following the country’s liberation from Britain in 1951, Nduom discussed the difficulties of campaigning in Ghana’s latest elections. Challenges ranged from lack of funding, to the questionable tactics of opposing parties, to the poverty endemic in many Ghanaian regions, he said...
...Read a brief history of piracy...
...Prabhakaran is considered to have practically invented suicide bombers. His "Black Tiger" bombers - almost half of them women - have killed thousands, including former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Ranasunghe Premadasa. The elite Black Sea Tigers perform underwater suicide bombings to sink enemy ships. (Read "A Brief History of the Tamil Tigers...
...Hague Breaking the Ice with Iran Almost two weeks after Barack Obama spoke to Iran in a video message, special envoy Richard Holbrooke met with Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister on the sidelines of an international conference on Afghanistan. The brief tête-à-tête marked the first such contact with Tehran since Obama took office...