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Official information on the numbers of dead and injured in the Ukraine war has been in short supply. Little has come from either the Ukrainian or Russian sides, with estimates from western governments and intelligence agencies filling the information void. But some Russian journalists have been documenting war deaths and have come up with a new way of estimating fatalities using probate records. With contributions from David Frenkel, reporter at Mediazona and the BBC?s Russian Service correspondent Olga Ivshina.
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Music
* Under the credits is Harlaamstrat 74 off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.
* They first meet to a piece called Brouillard (version 1) from Georges Delaure’s extraordinary score to Jules et Jim. (A second version comes in later when J.J. Audubon is living the high life in England).
* We also hear Waltz by Mother Falcon.
* I go back to the Marcelo Zarvos/Please Give well when the Scotsman arrives at their store. Note: it’s the go-to soundtrack for “People Arriving at One’s Store With A Life Changing Proposition” here at the Memory Palace. Also: go watch Please Give.
* The little piano piece is from Nathan Johnson’s score to The Day I Saw Your Heart.
* Lucy and John titter like plovers to Andrew Cyrille’s dope, skittering drums on Nuba 1.
* The especially sad bit, right before the end is Dream 3 (in the Midst of my Life), from Max Richter’s giant, From Sleep album.
* A couple times, including the ending, we hear “the Lark Ascending” from Ralph Vaughn Willliams. It is beautiful. You should buy it.
Notes
As per usual, I read a lot about the Audubons and the Bakewells.
I relied most upon the charming and smart, On the Road with John James Audubon by Mary Durant, and Carolyn DeLatte’s lovely, thoughtful book, Lucy Audubon: a Biography.
* Just a quick note: there’s a very enjoyable PBS/American Masters/Nature documentary about Audubon. It’s a fun and informative watch. But, I’ll say, you come out of that thinking that things were fundamentally swell between Lucy and John in a way that I’m not entirely sure is supported by the facts. Or jibes with, you know, human nature.
Brutal temperatures and heat advisories in Arizona and the rest of the south; A trial date for former President Donald Trump's classified documents case has been set. Singer Tony Bennett dies after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.
We here at Planet Money love economics papers. And that is also the case for so many of the economists we speak with. For them, new research can explain something they have always wondered about, or make them see something they have never noticed before. And it inspires their own work.
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Tony Bennett, the crooner whose success spanned generations, died Friday. He was 96 years old.
His voice was synonymous with the Great American Songbook, which he continued to bring to new audiences even as the country's musical tastes changed.
NPR's Walter Ray Watson traces the arc of Bennett's life, from his days as a singing waiter in Astoria, New York, to his Billboard-charting hits as a nonagenarian.
Tony Bennett, the crooner whose success spanned generations, died Friday. He was 96 years old.
His voice was synonymous with the Great American Songbook, which he continued to bring to new audiences even as the country's musical tastes changed.
NPR's Walter Ray Watson traces the arc of Bennett's life, from his days as a singing waiter in Astoria, New York, to his Billboard-charting hits as a nonagenarian.
Tony Bennett, the crooner whose success spanned generations, died Friday. He was 96 years old.
His voice was synonymous with the Great American Songbook, which he continued to bring to new audiences even as the country's musical tastes changed.
NPR's Walter Ray Watson traces the arc of Bennett's life, from his days as a singing waiter in Astoria, New York, to his Billboard-charting hits as a nonagenarian.
Illinois becomes the first state to eliminate cash bail. Kim Foxx publishes names on State’s Attorney’s “Do Not Call” list of officers they will not call to testify in court. Jesse Jackson passes the torch at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Reset goes behind the headlines of these stories and more in the Weekly News Recap. Our panel this week: Amy Guth, host of Crain’s Chicago Business podcast “The Daily Gist”; Patrick Smith, WBEZ criminal justice reporter; Alex Nitkin, reporter with the Illinois Answers Project for the Better Government Association.
