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...Bayou Classic football game. When asked, my father declined to articulate precisely what made him grow so uneasy about the Big Easy, beyond his stock response: "New Orleans is changing. It's gotten so dirty and dangerous down there." It's true that he was a black Mississippi country boy raised to be suspicious and fearful of the big, bad city and had grown into a conservative, law-and-order school administrator, but clearly Daddy had started to sense that real trouble was festering down in the Crescent City...
...DIED. Earl Woods, 74, former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel in Vietnam and father of golfer Tiger Woods; in Cypress, California. He had his son swinging clubs as a toddler and, after failing to persuade the boy to pursue other interests, became his trainer and devoted champion, once calling Tiger the "chosen one." Yet the close bond between the two?Tiger called him "an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend"?was unmistakable. After Tiger's Masters win in 1997?the first for a black player?he and his father embraced on the 18th green, a moment that became...
...unveiling of a 1,700-year-old copy of The Gospel of Judas brings to mind a previous discovery of ancient texts. TIME's April 15, 1957, cover story reported on what the delicate, 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls revealed about early Christianity: "Since a Bedouin shepherd boy named Muhammad adh-Dhib ('The Wolf') first stumbled on them just 10 years ago in a cave near Qumran (he had hoped to find buried treasure), the scrolls have stirred up perhaps the most vigorous debate in Christianity since Darwin ... The majority verdict: the scrolls do not shake the foundations...
...enjoyable evening. Every member of the “Footloose” cast does their part with a professional quality born of talent and noticeable hard work. The music is marked by not just beauty, but life and character. The dancing is not only technically precise, but spirited.City boy Ren McCormack (Kevin Barlowski) moves from foot-tapping, music blaring Chicago to the sleepy small town of Bomont, only to discover that the town’s head honcho Reverend Moore (Sean P. Bala ’09) has outlawed dancing. McCormack assumes the role of town troublemaker and sets...
...Arts First is vital to [Harvard] because it highlights just how significant the arts are to so many undergraduates, regardless of their concentration.”One of the weekend’s main attractions was the 2006 Harvard Arts Medal ceremony, where the former-choir-boy-turned-savage-satirist Christopher F. Durang ’71 was honored with the prize. Following the ceremony, John Lithgow ’67, who was last year’s commencement speaker and founded the Arts First program, led a conversation with Durang in front of a sold out audience...