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Author Dan Brown’s Brother Composes ‘Missa’ for Charles Darwin

Matthew McDonald

The musical composition sounds like the music for a Roman Catholic Mass, but instead of Scripture uses excerpts from The Origin of Species and other works by Charles Darwin, whose theory of evolution through natural selection replaced his original Anglicanism.

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Democrats Defensive About Clinton’s Name on New Hampshire Fund-Raising Dinner

Matthew McDonald

New Hampshire Democrats held an annual fall fund-raising dinner Friday night, calling it the Kennedy-Clinton dinner, after the two former Democratic presidents. But when the party chairman was asked by a reporter if Democrats should take Bill Clinton's name off  because of his treatment of women, he deflected the question, taking shots at President Donald Trump rather than standing by Clinton.

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