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If you think the New York Philharmonic's raison d'etre is playing Brahms at Central Park summer picnics, you'd be mistaken.
New York Philharmonic Visits Staten Island Junkyard For Musical Parts (VIDEO) Jonah Green 2010
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If you think the New York Philharmonic's raison d'etre is playing Brahms at Central Park summer picnics, you'd be mistaken.
New York Philharmonic Visits Staten Island Junkyard For Musical Parts (VIDEO) Jonah Green 2010
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If you think the New York Philharmonic's raison d'etre is playing Brahms at Central Park summer picnics, you'd be mistaken.
New York Philharmonic Visits Staten Island Junkyard For Musical Parts (VIDEO) Jonah Green 2010
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If you think the New York Philharmonic's raison d'etre is playing Brahms at Central Park summer picnics, you'd be mistaken.
New York Philharmonic Visits Staten Island Junkyard For Musical Parts (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I know CNN's raison d'etre is "access" at the expense of objectivity and integrity, but enough is enough.
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If you think the New York Philharmonic's raison d'etre is playing Brahms at Central Park summer picnics, you'd be mistaken.
New York Philharmonic Visits Staten Island Junkyard For Musical Parts (VIDEO) Jonah Green 2010
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Just as drivers today dominate the line between speed and chaos (yes, I am borrowing liberally from Talledega Nights) the sport's raison d'etre is navigating the crevices between order and anarchy.
Archive 2007-07-01 xtra 2007
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Of course while the wilder shores of activist placating were negotiated safely said activists proved themselves to be as politically unrealistic as you would, expect from a party whose raison d ` etre, is to be Black Adders Queeny who wants “Oooooo just everything!”
'Liberal' is the New Liberal Newmania 2007
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Of course while the wilder shores of activist placating were negotiated safely said activists proved themselves to be as politically unrealistic as you would, expect from a party whose raison d ` etre, is to be Black Adders Queeny who wants “Oooooo just everything!”
Archive 2007-12-16 Newmania 2007
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Just as drivers today dominate the line between speed and chaos (yes, I am borrowing liberally from Talledega Nights) the sport's raison d'etre is navigating the crevices between order and anarchy.
Elite Plot to Ruin Americer's Sport xtra 2007
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