• Tony Blair, Britain's former prime minister, who claims credit for negotiating the deal as the envoy for the Quartet (the UN, the EU, the United States and Russia), says he will not get the small print for two weeks.

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  • Jenin is a rare place in the Arab world where ordinary people have a good word for Tony Blair, whose visits as envoy for the Quartet (the EU, Russia, the UN and the United States) put the city on the map.

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  • Blair, currently a special envoy for the "Quartet" of Middle Eastern peacemakers -- the U.N.

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  • The revised plan was supposed to form the basis for the new Quartet plan that Blair referred to.

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  • Mr Blair is not being paid for his work as a Middle East envoy for the "Quartet" of the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia.

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  • The Quartet expressed its appreciation for the service of James Wolfensohn as Quartet Special Envoy for Gaza Disengagement, and noted his central role in the conclusion of the Agreement on Movement and Access and the promulgation of an agenda for Palestinian economic recovery.

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  • Fuentes takes just 29% of the team's total bullpen budget, leaving room for the club to invest in the quartet of Corpas, Jorge Julio, LaTroy Hawkins and Jeremy Affeldt.

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  • Lewis, who went on to mastermind the music of the Modern Jazz Quartet for much of the next forty years or so, was only just starting his experiments with baroque and other classical forms, and this piece is probably well enough titled.

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  • The Europeans also excoriated the Bush administration for telling French President Jacques Chirac last Thursday that the Quartet would not issue a final version of its so called "road map" for the establishment of a Palestinian state in its meeting today.

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  • The work interleaves nine pieces for string quartet with nine settings of the poetry of Paul Celan.

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  • The foreign secretary said he believed the Occupied Palestinian Territories had largely met the criteria for UN membership but the government wanted the Quartet - the United Nations, EU, Russia and the United States - to help the Israelis and Palestinians resume "meaningful negotiations" and reach a two-state deal.

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  • But the agreement does not meet the explicit conditions the Quartet set as its price for ending the embargo it imposed after Hamas won last year's legislative elections.

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  • Credible names already swinging through the velvet, ambient lounge include the Eric Reed Quintet and the Aaron Diehl Quartet, both hailed for their virtuoso performances by the New York Times.

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  • That evening, the Secretary-General attended a gala dinner, held at the Castello di Miramare and hosted by Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, for the G-8 and Quartet Ministers.

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  • Earlier in the month, the writer was at Carnegie Hall for an all-Brahms program by the mighty Emerson Quartet, and he also went to the Manhattan School of Music to attend the final event at the Robert Mann String Quartet Institute, led by the longtime first violinist of the Juilliard Quartet.

    NEWYORKER: The Power of Four

  • Administrators for the awards met Friday for the fourth and final time to determine the eligibility of certain shows and ruled that the quartet of actresses who rotate as the lead in "Matilda" are not eligible in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Musical category.

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  • Arnold Steinhardt has been the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet for 42 years.

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  • Mr Zygmuntowicz, who has also made instruments for Joshua Bell and the Emerson String Quartet, is rated as one of the best violin-makers alive.

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  • Made as a series last year for British television and available now either as a single, mammoth five-hour movie or three features, the trilogy is based on a quartet of books (one was dropped for the TV adaptation) written by the British noir specialist David Peace.

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  • Lady Ashton has tried to propose an alternative to full UN membership: the Vatican option, plus a Quartet statement setting out the terms and timetable for new talks on Palestinian statehood.

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  • Marion "Penny" Sage (16), Patricia Eastwood (12) and Jones's skating partner Marcelle Matthews (11) were the female trio who completed the pioneering quartet who placed Africa on the icy Games' map for the first time.

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  • Some, like the Cleveland Quartet, blaze for years and then, finally, disband from a variety of accumulated professional and personal stresses.

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  • The quartet also foresaw trouble for Hesse's economy.

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  • Mr. BRUNE: For years and years and years, so many decisions were arrived at musically through the members of the quartet, but they couldn't sit down for 20 minutes and arrive at equitable decisions involving their assets.

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  • Paul Robertson, who leads the Medici Quartet, reports growing demand from doctors and businessmen for his lectures on music and the mind.

    ECONOMIST: Music as healing

  • So while then-prime minister Ehud Barak for instance claimed that his offer to cede the Temple Mount was contingent on the signing of a peace treaty, when the so-called Middle East Quartet issued its road map plan for peace, Barak's ostensibly canceled offer was the starting point of negotiations.

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  • It may be that one of the periodic escalations in violence will lead to strong influence being exerted from the International Quartet to implement its Roadmap for Peace.

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  • Bono also said that despite their own global success during a career which spans 33 years, the Dublin quartet are "constantly fighting for our lives" to keep people interested.

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  • That quartet is up for vocal group of the year with Lady Antebellum, which has won the award three straight times, Zac Brown Band, Eli Young Band and The Band Perry.

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  • Robert Serry, Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General, told the Security Council today that diplomatic efforts to reinvigorate the Middle East peace process had continued, and recent meetings -- including of the Quartet on Friday -- were part of a concentrated push to create the conditions for re-launching efforts for a two-State solution.

    UN: Security Council

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