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Economist alleges corporate watchdog ASIC is only investigating tiny proportion of complaints

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has experienced years of upheaval and a heavy workload after the banking royal commission. An economist's analysis suggests the independent body is only investigating a fraction of complaints.

ABC News

Facts come to the rescue in the age of gaslighting

The search for truth is complicated: There are many versions of it, many disagreements about what it even means. The idea of fact is something we feel better prepared to defend on objective grounds.

WEKU

Classical home listening: Igor Levit takes on Tristan; an ideal John Adams primer

Levit ranges from Wagner to Henze with the Leipzig Gewandhaus, while Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich celebrate their artist-in-residence

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What's on this weekend at Hunter galleries

Art Systems Wickham Infinite Never Never, by Rebecca Rath. Until September 18. Blackstone Gallery In The Lap of the Gods, Frances Johnston, until September 24. Curve Gallery Jane Lander, Zoe Tjanavaras, Amy Vidler. Charlestown Library Portraits of Crime, by Damien Linnane, explores how we judge the action of past criminal…

Newcastle Herald

The hidden world of an opera prompter

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails.

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MOVIE REVIEW: We rock out to spellbinding horror 'Hellbender'

Family affair is peculiar beast with energetic tunes and endearing chemistry between real-life mother and daughter.

Daily Record

John Adams sets Shakespeare's play about love and politics

When composer John Adams decided to base his new work on Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra,” he was aware that the project might evoke an unhappy chapter in opera history

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DNA from newspaper letter solves 34-year-old cold case

58-year-old who died in 2018 identified as killer 35 years after murder

The Independent UK

How Georgia reduced heat-related high school football deaths

Starting practice at the hottest time of year, football players face dangers from the heat. Georgia high school heat rules have turned the state into a national model.

WEKU

David McCullough: Master chronicler of American history

The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning writer turned out hugely popular tomes during his 50-year career, writing about his nation’s ‘good and the bad, the high accomplishments and the skulduggery’

The Independent UK

R.I.P. David McCullough, Who Saw the Bright Side of History

McCullough didn't just build on academic historians' work—he filled a gap they left.

Reason

Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough dies at 89

David McCullough, best-selling author and renowned historian who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of presidents John Adams and Harry Truman, has died at the age of 89, his publisher said on Monday.

Reuters

Pulitzer Prize winning historian David McCullough has died

He wrote acclaimed books about Harry Truman and John Adams, along with the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal. He also was the authoritative voice narrating TV films such as The Civil War in 1990.

WEKU

David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89

Beyond his books, the handsome, white-haired McCullough may have had the most recognizable presence of any historian, his fatherly baritone known to fans of PBS’s “The American Experience” and Ken Burns’ epic “Civil War” documentary

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The Independent UK

David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died

Los Angeles Times

Appreciation: What did Peter Brook and Richard Taruskin have in common? Next to nothing and everything

Director Peter Brook and musicologist Richard Taruskin were transformative figures, and fixtures, in their fields. While alive they were too unalike — separated by age, temperament and activities — to tempt us to connect them in any way. Yet their deaths a day apart at the beginning of July placed…

The Guardian - UK

Conrad Tao review – full-blooded piano playing with a dash of quirk

Tao’s programme exploited his talents to the full, including a ‘pandemic repertoire’ of Beethoven, Adams and Tao himself

The Independent UK

Plans for center to honor Presidents Adams and Quincy Adams

A Boston suburb that was the birthplace of two of the nation’s earliest presidents is planning to build a center honoring their legacies

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The Founders Loved Jury Trials. Almost No One Gets One Anymore.

John Adams called jury trials part of the "heart and lungs of liberty." Today, defendants are often punished for exercising that very right.

The Independent UK

Fourth of July 2023: Which three US presidents died on Independence Day?

US celebrates the signing of the Declaration of Independence and remembers the Founding Fathers who made it possible

Benzinga

10 Weirdest Facts About The American Revolution: Jefferson, Betsy Ross And The Ethiopian Regiment

In the classic movie “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” one of the characters offers the statement “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

The Guardian - UK

Classical home listening: John Adams Collected Works

Bonus extras make Nonesuch’s 40-disc box set of the prolific American composer well worth the investment

ABC News

Global Primordium prostate cancer trial begins with Bundaberg man the first participant

When John Adams' cancer resurfaced last year, he thought he would have to travel hundreds of kilometres for treatment. But with promising early results, an Australian-first clinical trial is allowing him to receive care from the comfort of his home.

The Conversation

Mike Pence's actions on Jan. 6 were wholly unremarkable – until they saved the nation

New revelations from the congressional committee investigating the events on and leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol show the crucial role then-Vice President Mike Pence played in thwarting the insurrection – and reveal the principles behind his actions.

The Guardian - UK

LSO/Rattle review – transatlantic glitz and lithe elegance

Simon Rattle once again showed his affinity with Haydn before a distinct second half featuring a London premiere of John Adams and extrovert Gershwin works

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