The 40th Anniversary celebration of Earth Day presents another opportunity to reaffirm the goals of the global environmental movement in the context of the origins of rising consciousness about the vital cause of saving the planet ...
President Obama's recent signing of the Workplace Flexibility Act is the next step in America's progress toward greater equality for women in the workplace ...
Celebrity marriages are a study in contrasts ...
The Republican Party is back to its "grand old" tradition of lies, hate, fear, acts of violence and intimidation ...
Pierre Boulez is among the most influential contemporary classical musicians, both as conductor and composer. Boulez is also an articulate, perceptive and sweeping writer
Elmer Bernstein was a prolific and renowned American film score composer and protege of Aaron Copland. Among his more than 200 film and television scores are "The Magnificent Seven", "The Great Escape", "The Ten Commandments", "The Man With The Golden Arm" and "To Kill A Mockingbird".
Using her huge Senate re-election victory as a platform, Mrs. Clinton announced an Exploratory Committee for the 2008 Presidential Election ...
Hillary Clinton has ascended to the status of most powerful woman in the world ...
For much of the world, standards of living and life expectancy increase as family size and birth rates decline...
Kaolas - a symbol of the glory of Australia's wildlife ...
Vasarely in his prime - Folklore Planetaire ...
Victor Vasarely is considered to be the father of Op Art ...
Thelonious Monk was a highly individualistic American jazz pianist and composer.
Quincy Jones is a Grammy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated composer and record producer. He is best known as the producer of the album "Thriller", by the late pop icon Michael Jackson - which has sold over 110 million copies worldwide - and as the producer and conductor of the charity song "We Are The World", which featured dozens of personalities from every field of entertainment.
Maurice Ravel - a French classical composer and pianist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries - best known for "Bolero" - employed rich, innovative harmonies in his orchestral and piano works.