He also treated us to his solo guitar treatments of two jazz standards ("But Beautiful" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"), as well as one of his own solo guitar compositions, "Venezuelan Nights, " from his recent CD The Spice of Life.

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"They treated us like a bank, " he says.

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Nevertheless, he bellied up to the microphone by himself and treated us to a brief but well-rounded survey of his expansive catalog: a selection from the Eban and Charley soundtrack, one song apiece from the albums Get Lost and Distortion, and a number originally composed for the audio book of Lemony Snicket's The Hostile Hospital.

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The new defence secretary also said he was committed to making sure that both US troops and civilian workers were treated fairly and equitably.

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Mr Mendez said the US had told him Mr Manning was being treated better now than when he was in Quantico.

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