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KABUL—A four-minute peace offering recorded onto a cellphone won the trust of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his top advisers—and clinched a plot that led to the killing of their chief peace negotiator.
Afghan Probe Sheds Light on Assassination Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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After arriving in Kabul on Sept. 17, Mr. Esmatullah presented the four-minute recording to Messrs.
Afghan Probe Sheds Light on Assassination Dion Nissenbaum 2011
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Well, I once read all these answers in a magazine to the question of what you would do if the four-minute warning sounded and one response was to run into the department store John Lewis on the grounds that nothing unpleasant could ever happen there.
The Autobiography of Mister Litlove « Tales from the Reading Room 2009
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Maria's fame grew last spring, when the Los Angeles-based band OK Go began to scout Echo Park Lake for an 18-hour shoot that would be sped up into a four-minute music video.
'Maria, Maria, I've Just Met A Goose Named Maria...' Alexandra Berzon 2011
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The prerecorded four-minute message was broadcast Friday on the Syrian-based Al-Rai TV, which has become Gadhafi's main mouthpiece.
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She wrote four-minute radio scripts to help pay the bills until her agent encouraged her to try her hand at books.
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That many high-quality songs on one album, with the accompanying multimedia extras (the videos ... those videos), and, let's face it — a performer who could in this age of hot-house flowered, so-called “studio singers” who cannot get loose live — a performer who could in a four-minute live performance become a jaw-dropping, flesh-and-blood special effect (Motown 25, ya'll) is something beyond rare.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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That many high-quality songs on one album, with the accompanying multimedia extras (the videos ... those videos), and, let's face it — a performer who could in this age of hot-house flowered, so-called “studio singers” who cannot get loose live — a performer who could in a four-minute live performance become a jaw-dropping, flesh-and-blood special effect (Motown 25, ya'll) is something beyond rare.
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But what started as an hour-long after-school club every Friday turned into an obsession for the pupils involved, who ended up giving up most of their break and lunchtimes, and even Saturdays, to create the four-minute film "Our Independent School" that has scooped the award.
Film my school: despicable us Janet Murray 2010
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The prerecorded four-minute message was broadcast Friday on the Syrian-based Al-Rai TV, which has become Gadhafi's main mouthpiece.
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