John McCain knows better than most that politics makes strange bedfellows, so he never minded that his campaign-finance-reform bill found more favor among Democrats than Republicans.

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The long, strange career of would-be biofuels pioneer John H.

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At one especially strange moment, I was berated by Michigan Democrat John Conyers, who was actually my Congressman growing up in Detroit, forty-some years ago.

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Both Ashley Page's "Guide to Strange Places, " a 2012 SFB commission to John Adams's not exactly dance-friendly music of the same name, and Christopher Wheeldon's 2008 commission, "Within the Golden Hour" (to Ezio Bosso and Antonio Vivaldi), duly showed off SFB.

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Singular among the clothes in the show is a superbly cut black wool coat and trouser suit of 1928, made for Michael Strange, which was the pseudonym of Blanche Oelrichs, a poet who was once married to the actor John Barrymore.

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