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Sheryl Crow, Dixie Chicks, Alicia Keys, Randy Newman, Paul Simon, Rod Stewart and Neil Young have joined "Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast", the live one-hour special/fundraiser airing 8 p.m. Friday on the six major broadcast networks. Cable networks confirmed to participate in the roadblock telecast include ABC Family, Bravo, E!, TBS, USA Network, FX and Oxygen. Benefiting those affected by Hurricane Katrina, the simulcast will ... be carried on other programming services, both domestically and internationally.
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Paul, Art, Roy Halee and Bob Irwin compiled a new 3CD box set of remastered and rare S&G material, entitled Old Friends, in late 1997. Marking the first proper remastering of the Simon & Garfunkel catalogue, the set features a handful of unreleased and rare studio tracks, as well as live material from the duo’s halcyon days.
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In Congress, Simon was generally regarded as a liberal and a reliable friend of organized labour. In the Senate he sat on the Labor and Human Resources Committee, Judiciary, Budget, and Foreign Relations. He was an opponent of the increased defence spending of the Reagan era, voting against new weapons systems such as MX, SDI, and the B1 bomber. He was ... opposed to many of the Reagan judicial nominations and voted against Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987.
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