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Retired Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Donald Martino, widely respected for his atonal works, died on Thursday aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean off the coast of Antigua. He was 74. The death was caused by cardiac arrest, which was brought about by complications with his diabetes and occurred while he was vacationing with Lora Martino, his wife of 36 years. Born in Plainfield, N.J. in 1931, Martino taught music for over 20 years. Martino joined the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard in 1983 after teaching at Princeton, Yale, The New England Conservatory, and Brandeis...
...behind science and when efforts have been made to reassert religion in an authoritative position. The most famous of those clashes was, of course, between the Roman Catholic Church and Galileo over his heretical belief that the sun was the center of the universe. Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life, and science was forced to submit to religion. Intelligent design is a fleeting but dangerous effort to maintain a position that, in the face of science, becomes less and less credible with the passage of time. Roy Heath Truro, England...
...tortured; to throw the Italians off the scent, the CIA reportedly told them that Nasr had fled to the Balkans. The Italian government publicly denies the U.S. insistence that the CIA cleared the caper with Rome's intelligence service in advance, and this summer an Italian court issued arrest warrants for 22 CIA operatives allegedly involved. Milan prosecutors had no difficulty identifying the officers from cell-phone records and a trail of credit-card charges left at hotels and restaurants. "The spooks aren't very spooky these days," says a U.S. counterterrorism official...
...went wrong, but you can blame him for some of it. Buchanan could out-analyze Hercule Poirot. But in complacent teams it's the basics that slip first, and Australia's fielding, running between the wickets, and discipline went to seed. Buchanan either didn't notice or couldn't arrest the slide. It was hard to tell which, because his arguments about the merits of Australia's performances were, by the end, eccentric - akin to saying that a piece of music is better than it sounds. Bob Simpson, a Buchanan predecessor, subscribed to the mantra drummed into boys in short...
...height of the Vietnam War, Arlo Guthrie wrote a song about littering. The song, “Alice’s Restaurant,” tells the story of a young man who is called before the draft board only to discover that an arrest for littering a few years back makes him ineligible to serve in the Vietnam War, a war he detests. The narrator, asked if he’s rehabilitated himself after his crime, loses his cool. “You got a lot a damn gall,” he explodes...