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...years ago. The 27-year-old pianist is blind and severely learning disabled; he can't tie his own shoelaces or butter a piece of bread. Yet his musical gifts appear almost unlimited. With rehearsals over, Paravicini and his longtime teacher Adam Ockelford go into a quiet room to listen to a recording of the version of Bumblebee that the orchestra has learned. A few hours later, in front of 400 people, Paravicini and the Emerald Ensemble charge through a dizzying performance of the music he has just listened to, perfectly in sync. By the end of Paravicini's first...
...Paravicini what his secret is and the answer is simple: "I just listen. And relax." As for what's next, nobody's sure. A documentary filmmaker has been following him around for months, and a movie studio has floated the idea of making a biopic. But as Paravicini starts in on Fats Waller's Ain't Misbehavin', he's oblivious to anything beyond the joy of this moment. Rocking back and forth, a sideways smile on his face, he throws in a cascading scale here, a sneaky chord there, taking the tune as far out as he can before pulling...
...decided to put on the global extravaganza called Live Earth. In Washington, a retired Republican businessman named Gary Dunham-in town from Sugarland, Texas, for his wife's Daughters of the American Revolution convention-saw it and started giving his own version of the show to anyone who would listen. Dunham became the first of more than 1,200 to be trained as presenters. "All the trainees will tell you the same thing," he says. "That movie changed our lives...
...begged and pleaded them that I am not an opposition worker; I am a student," says Aadil Badshah, a 20-year-old Pathan studying engineering, who was shot in the legs and hands. "They did not listen to me. They were laughing at us and four others. One of them was a 50-year-old laborer. First they beat us, took us inside a street, put us to stand in a line and then fired on us. And then left. Two died on the spot and me and two others survived...
...tensions between the Muslim world and the West? -Asghar Mayo in Lahore, Pakistan Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate...