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President Barack Obama spent his day Friday, in advance of the 65th anniversary of D-Day, immersed in this contradiction. The morning began in Dresden, the site of one of World War II's worst firebombings, an hourlong aerial bombardment that killed probably tens of thousands of civilians. He visited the Frauenkirch Dresden, a soaring Baroque Protestant church that was destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombs and then rebuilt in 2005, restored to its gilded splendor. In a corner of the church, he lit a candle to remember the dead. (See pictures of Obama in Germany...
Salute. To commemorate the 65th anniversary of D-Day, the National World War II Museum in New Orleans is sponsoring a Victory in Europe tour to Normandy, led by the museum curators and veterans, who share first-hand stories and serve as guides. On the tour, you'll visit London, Normandy and Paris, and highlights include dinner with Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, the son of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. The package is priced per person at $5,550 double-occupancy; the single supplement is $1,150. If you can't get to Normandy, the Nola museum is also running...
...fingerprint lab. Completed in 1969 in the design idiom called Brutalism, it ran more than half the length of a city block with hardly a grace note or welcoming gesture. To make matters worse, a heavy pedestrian bridge that connected it to the main Lincoln Center campus, across 65th Street, cast a broad swath of that street into permanent shadow...
...faster this year,” Mangan said. Wrapping up this weekend’s carnival was the women’s 10K Free. Devlin finished in the middle of the pack with a time of 33:45.41, while Mangan, Sprague, Mulshine, Shultz, and Burruss finished in 56th, 57th, 65th, 70th, and 77th place, respectively. Harvard won’t have much time to rest, as it prepares to gear up for the Vermont Carnival next weekend. “We just have to get some more training under our belts, build on what we’ve done...
...Gillespie said. “So we were just trying to do our thing. And I think we did that. We got a lot of new [personal records].”In the women’s 6K White Race, sophomore Claire Richardson led the Crimson pack with her 65th individual placement, coming in at 21:33. Classmate Jamie Olson followed up with a 21:42 time, good for 79th. Freshman Nicole Cochran and sophomores Hilary May and Meghan Houser finished out the third, fourth, and fifth-place finishes for the team. Cochran finished...