American conductor Marin Alsop is to become the first woman in 118 years to lead the Last Night of the Proms, the grand finale of Britain’s leading classical music festival which includes a
Women’s first since 1895 Proms
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Tiananmen Square a watershed story for CNN
For CNN, Tiananmen Square was a watershed story — a seminal moment in the network’s history. Only nine years old in 1989, CNN was the only 24-hour news station on the air at the time. But staffers say the network suffered an inferiority complex when comparing itself to the major players in American television, who had dismissed the new upstart for years as “Chicken Noodle News.” Enter Tiananmen Square