Saxophonist completes final pilgrimage
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As the new year began, Michael Brecker's life was coming to an end.
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By BOB YOUNG  Alain Perez's journey out of Cuba was prompted by the same desires that drove fellow Cuban jazz musicians Paquito D'Rivera and Arturo Sandoval to leave the island: to find a better life and a better way to make the music he loved.
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It's nice to sail into a new year being at peace with the world. The trick is getting that feeling to last. Commentary by Tony Long.
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Amid a flourish of celebratory music, a group of dignitaries, businesspeople and Vietnamese Americans took off from San Francisco International Airport just past noon Thursday, bound for Ho Chi Minh City.
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A top Islamic cleric rushed from the West Bank to Yasser Arafat's hospital bedside Wednesday in what an aide to the Palestinian leader called the "final phase" of his life.
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Scott Peterson&#39;s lawyer wrapped up his closing arguments Wednesday morning, clearing the way for the California jury to begin deliberations.
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The great Moroccan reveals hidden depths to fit the final piece into a reign that was lacking just one achievement, reports Len Johnson.
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Emmitt Smith waved and bowed to the crowd Sunday as he walked off the field for what might be the final time as an NFL player.
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On the final stop of his trip to his predecessor's homeland, the German Pope visited the notorious death camp and offered a remarkable meditation on the Holocaust
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South African adventurer Mike Horn on Thursday became the first man to circumnavigate the Arctic Circle without motorized transport, completing a more than two-year solo odyssey.
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Keyboardist Joe Zawinul, who played with  Miles Davis and helped shape jazz fusion with his band Weather  Report, died in his native city of Vienna on Tuesday, aged 75.
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Trevor Hoffman got the final out and the celebration was on.
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Frenchman Serge Girard has completed a 260-day run from Paris to Tokyo, breaking the record for the longest journey without a full day of rest.
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Southeast Asia&#39;s wiliest political survivor yesterday completed his own intricately scripted exit from the stage. King Norodom Sihanouk, who first took Cambodia&#39;s throne when
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The Kabbalah-practicing singer will stay in the Holy Land for five days, visiting graves of rabbinical sages, along with 2,000 other students from 22 countries on a Kabbalah Center-sponsored trip, according to The Associated Press.
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Pope John Paul left hospital on Thursday,  ending a 10-day stay for severe breathing problems that revived  concern about his health and the leadership of the Roman  Catholic Church.
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Karl Malone, the second highest scorer  in NBA history and twice league Most Valuable Player, ended his  career Sunday where it all began with the Utah Jazz.