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...supporters waved posters and flags close behind. “It’s ridiculous to have an anti-French rally,” said Christopher W. Black ’06, a French supporter who arrived wearing a beret and a scarf around his neck. “They’re targeting a country just for contradicting...
...DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET. Legendary pianist Brubeck will stop by Sanders Theatre for two back-to-back concerts this weekend. Equally distinguished as a composer and a performer, Brubeck has maintained a reputation as a progressive, intellectual jazz musician throughout a career now half a century long. Put on your beret, buy some cigarettes, and have a night of guaranteed cutting-edge jazz. Saturday, March 15 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets $29.50 to $35.50, available through the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
...tribute to the Ramones is like a sexless tribute to James Brown, yet half the thrill of the new all-star Ramones tribute, We're a Happy Family, comes from hearing irony-impaired acts swing and miss at their heroes' greatest hits. James Hetfield bellows "I was a Green Beret in Vietnam" on Metallica's version of 53rd & 3rd as if he were auditioning for Oliver Stone, while Marilyn Manson, who once seemed a suitable heir to the Ramones (or at least Alice Cooper) turns The KKK Took My Baby Away into a bland bit of Goth melodrama. The Ramones...
...lobby of the U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass., a mannequin models timeless military fashion: black beret, battle-dress uniform and lace-up boots. But elsewhere within the 50-year-old cinder-block buildings, plans are afoot to clothe the future warrior--and perhaps us--in the stuff of science fiction...
...Pentagon is not happy about the SOG's moving aggressively onto its turf. When aides told Rumsfeld in late September 2001 that his Army Green Beret A-Teams couldn't go into Afghanistan until the CIA contingent there had laid the groundwork with the local warlords, he erupted, "I have all these guys under arms, and we've got to wait like a little bird in a nest for the CIA to let us go in?" What's more, Rumsfeld, according to a Pentagon source, does not like the idea that the CIA's paramilitary operatives could start fights...