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...military band in crisp white uniforms played in the Yard, 8 graduating members of the Harvard Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) were sworn in as commissioned officers yesterday, the largest ROTC class at Harvard in more than a decade...
Uday held less impressive posts. Apart from heading the Olympic Committee, he supervised various Iraqi media outlets and oversaw the Fedayeen Saddam, a ragtag band of armed militants, mostly ex-felons, that eventually became part of Saddam's security apparatus. Whereas Qusay would icily and efficiently murder for his father to further a political aim, his brother pursued a brand of terror that was personal, arbitrary and spontaneous. He was a threat to any father whose daughter might cross his path, to the women themselves, even to his own friends, who, it turns out, were subjected to torture and humiliation...
...time the eco-terrorists show up--a band of tree sitters, with names like Lynx and Aquarius and Smokebomb, who drop from the skies, rappelling down the trunks of a redwood grove onstage--your head is already spinning. Daughters of the Revolution, one-half of David Edgar's two-play cycle about an American political campaign called Continental Divide, has mostly been talk up to this point. But what talk! The play has nearly 50 characters, rapid-fire dialogue and an impossibly complicated plot involving leftover '60s radicals, skeletons in the closet, the clash between ideals and pragmatism in politics...
Everybody in Electric Six has a made-up name (the guitarists are the Rock and Roll Indian and Surge Joebot), but if the band is full of ironic knuckleheads, at least they're ironic knuckleheads with talent. Tracks like She's White and Improper Dancing have a lunatic energy that starts with singer Dick Valentine, whose over-enunciated roar makes him sound like a postmodern Tom Jones. The music is guitar pop, but Electric Six are liberated or lazy enough to steal ideas from anywhere, so disco beats and power chords get sprinkled in. Most tracks sound as if AC/DC...
...copy of The Ascent of Everest is autographed by George Band, who was the youngest member of the expedition - just 24 in 1953. His parents went to the same church as mine, and my father got his signature when Band gave the congregation a slide show on his exploits in the high mountains. (In 1954 Band and another legendary British climber, Joe Brown, were the first men to summit Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, and technically a much tougher climb than Everest.) Now retired, Band still leads treks in the Himalayas. When I spoke to him last week...