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...have had firsthand experience of Mosul. Fleenor earned a Purple Heart for the injuries he sustained here in 2004, and he lost his best friend, Sergeant Frank Hernandez, to a roadside bomb during the same deployment. As he walks the confines of Rabiya, Fleenor still wears a black metal band on his wrist etched with Hernandez's name. Sergeant Tony Carter, 33, who also served in this city during the early days of the war, acknowledges a sense of frustration with the current situation in light of the years of efforts to calm the city. "Of course, if you spend...
...filled with enthusiastic Hillary supporters - the most vocal are AFSCME union members clad in bright green T-shirts - but the crowd is not much larger than the 4,000 who gathered on the same spot Saturday to hear Republican renegade Ron Paul. In the minutes before Clinton appears, a band of Obama supporters works the crowd passing out stickers and flyers, some students even leave before Clinton appears and, as he speaks, it is clear the Clinton campaign has concerns about the Obama grassroots organization...
Thomas G. Everett, director of the Harvard University Band and founder of the Harvard jazz bands, has won the 2008 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award, according to a press release from the University. The award—which includes a $10,000 honorarium awarded through the Office for the Arts at Harvard—was established in 1986 in memory of Vosgerchian, a late music professor. “There is a still a surreal feeling,” Everett said. “I am very honored to be associated with her.” Everett, a bass trombonist...
...Yardfest last spring, the rain-drenched hoard of Harvard students crooned along with the band’s hit, “Semi-Charmed Life.” “I want something else,” the song goes—and students chanted along with the band. But for some, these lyrics carry genuine sentiment: When it comes to the artists that the College Events Board (CEB) chooses to perform at Harvard each spring, many of us wish that we were watching something—or someone—else. The CEB is in the unfortunate position...
Favorite childhood toy: Rock Band (I’m at the peak of my childhood...