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'I'd like to thank the Academy for courageously breaking the mold this time.'
Herbie Hancock, pianist and composer, on being the first jazz artist in 43 years to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year

'The impact of the insane response to my cartoon will last for the rest of my life.'
Kurt Westergaard, cartoonist for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, after Danish police arrested three men in an alleged plot to kill him over his 2005 cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad that...

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