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“Billy Budd”: sex, revolution and sea in jaw-dropping opera
March 4, 2014In 1888 Herman Melville began the philosophical novella Billy Budd. Perhaps one could say that composer Benjamin Britten and his librettists E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier "completed" it with their adaptation.
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Today in women’s history: Frances Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
March 4, 2014The appointment on March 4, 1933, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt made Perkins the first female cabinet member in U.S. history.
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GOP-run Missouri House moving fast on anti-worker agenda
March 4, 2014Unionists mobilized against anti-worker schemes, delivering more than 6,850 handwritten and individual letters to state House Speaker Tim Jones demanding he reject so-called Right to Work legislation.
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Good Jobs First analysis: The corporate rich get richer
March 4, 2014States and cities frequently shower firms with millions of dollars in tax breaks, all in the name of gaining - or keeping - jobs. The corporate rich get richer from it.
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Prosecutor aims to increase Marissa Alexander sentence to 60 years
March 4, 2014The national Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign is resolved to fight for Marissa Alexander's freedom, and for the lives and freedom of all victims of domestic violence.
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