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Is Morocco’s beloved rain song «Achta ta ta» more than just a children’s chant?

«Achta ta ta» is widely remembered in Morocco as a joyful children’s rain chant marking the start of winter. But that playful ...
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Tom Lehrer, satirist who sang about ‘Hanukkah in Santa Monica,’ dies at 97

Tom Lehrer never identified closely with his ancestral Judaism. But the famed satirist and mathematician, who died Saturday at 97, wrote one of the first popular songs about a Jewish holiday. “(I’m ...