It has more football tradition than anyone, from George Gipp and Knute Rockne (win one for the Gipper) to the fight song and touchdown Jesus.

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As these students were playing such immediately identifiable Mingus compositions as "Fables of Faubus, " "Haitian Fight Song" and "Better Git It in Your Soul, " John Thomas Dodson conductor of the Adrian, Mich.

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Twilight, the story of a passionate romance between a mortal girl and an enigmatic vampire, is also nominated for best female for star Kristen Stewart, best fight and best song - for Paramore's Decode.

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Greg Budney, audio curator at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, a renowned collection of recorded bird song, says he has had requests to use the collection for medical purposes but hasn't heard of bird song being used to fight crime.

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The RIAA blames online music piracy for falling sales of CDs and has been relentless in using the courts to fight people and services suspected of facilitating online song-sharing.

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Music publishers are building a song rights database which will make it easier to launch online music services - and fight piracy.

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