Khrennikov made sure Mr Schnittke's First Symphony, his first great poly-stylistic statement, was denied a performance in Moscow.

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The scene ought one day to provide an emotional climax to a film of his life, with a poly-stylistic score written perhaps by John Tavener or Henryk Gorecki.

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So says George Kyriakou, 25, a Greece native and graduate student at the Polytechnic Institute at NYU. Kyriakou and his roommates, fellow NYU-Poly students Nicolas Vansnick of Belgium and Kaif Memon of India, joined the NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge with a technological idea to improve education.

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Judge Annaick Le Goff ordered the arrest of Jean-Claude Mas, founder of Poly Implant Prothese, or PIP, from his partner's home in southern France, a law enforcement official in Marseille told CNN on March 7.

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NYU-Poly's coach understands firsthand that battling such an impressive talent is a unique opportunity for his players, one they likely will remember long after the conclusion of Thursday night's game.

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If we ever thought about "American football" at all, we thought about all that protective gear and considered it a source of some pride that the average English football fan was in more physical danger on his way to the toilets (we called them that) at halftime than a roly-poly lineman in a scrimmage.

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