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							   You think an overdubbed Beatles tune could be any weirder than a new Beatles song with John Lennon? Then again, "I Want to Hold You Hand" overdubbed by a guy with a hand on his crotch and his hair on fire would be pretty hard to top. But don't worry, it won't happen, or anyway, it won't happen as a result of Jackson owning the Beatles library.   
							
							 
						
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							 Photos of Boston in the '70s 
							
							 
						
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							  There was Michael the living, breathing, singing performer and Jackson the commercial spectacle. We surrendered to the former, he to the latter.  
							
							 
						
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							   The bill continues to come due for the string of nine wrongful convictions discovered in Boston between 1999 and 2004 — a tab that has now topped $10 million in court settlements.   
							
							 
						
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							  PJ Harvey's two albums with John Parish are not her best work. (Go ahead and argue it, if you like.) The first,  Dance Hall At Louse Point , was a surprise departure from her game-changing  To Bring You My Love , an album that sold far less than Madonna records but packed as much cultural impact -- back when rock albums and cultural impact were still on speaking terms.  
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
				
					
					
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							   The bill continues to come due for the string of nine wrongful convictions discovered in Boston between 1999 and 2004 — a tab that has now topped $10 million in court settlements.   
							
							 
						
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							 Mark Sandman died with his boots on. Or at least the rock-and-roll equivalent of the Old West gunfighter’s epitaph. 
							
							 
						
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							  Last year's Boston French Film Festival featured Claude Chabrol's  A Girl Cut in Two , and that, combined with this year's Chris Marker retrospective at the Harvard Film Archive and Agnès Varda's fine new  The Beaches of Agnès , made it seem almost plausible that the New Wave might rise again.  
							
							 
						
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							  The Dutch emerged at the dawn of the 17th century as a pre-eminent military and commercial power on the sea. They were in the midst of throwing off Spanish rule and developing a shipping empire that would reach from the Americas to South Africa to Asia.  
							
							 
						
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							  Va te faire enculer . Sounds lovely, doesn’t it? Actually, I just told you to fuck off. Pardon my French! 
							
							 
						
					 
				 
			 
			
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