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...This civic spirit of Bombay is not well understood by the rest of the world. The week before the blasts, Reader's Digest came out with a specious, culturally biased survey declaring that Bombay was the world's rudest city?and the politest was that famed citadel of courtesy, New York City. "In Mumbai, they'll step over a person who's fallen in the street," the magazine quoted a Bombayite as saying. But as soon as the bombs went off, Bombayites stooped low to pick up anyone who had fallen in the street, and carried their blood-soaked bodies...
DIED. Phil Walden, 66, brash impresario and co-founder of Capricorn Records, based in Macon, Ga., a label known during its 1970s heyday as the citadel of Southern rock; of cancer; in Atlanta. Intent on providing a haven for an array of blues, country and pop artists, the former manager for Otis Redding launched the Allman Brothers Band and popularized such acts as the Dixie Dregs, the Marshall Tucker Band and the Charlie Daniels Band...
...tutoring four of the Bulldogs’ most accomplished quarterbacks, but never defeated Harvard during his tenure as offensive coordinator. In 2003, his unit led the league in scoring, total offense, and passing offense. Lamb replaces former offensive coordinator Dave Cecchini, who departed Cambridge in the winter for The Citadel to rejoin head coach Kevin Higgins. Cecchini worked with Higgins at Lehigh prior to joining the Crimson staff in 2004. Defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator Eric Westerfield also departed for The Citadel. His position has not yet been filled by Murphy. In the meantime, Lamb will shoulder some recruiting...
TIME: Disney is merging its ABC Radio division with Citadel in a $2.7 billion deal. Analysts say that's less than it could have got a few years ago. Why do you think radio is a growth business...
...With monk-like devotion, Morandi spent a lifetime honing the still life, grouping bottles and cups into quiet meditations on solitude and society. Hanssen Pigott had seen his 1972 retrospective in Paris, admiring his "geometry tempered by poetry," and in the following decade an Italianate bottle emerged citadel-like from her kiln. She called the piece Thinking of Morandi. Over time her vessels grew into simpler shapes, the space between their groupings often as important as the objects themselves. In this way, a producer of domestic pottery became a sculptor of space. With Leaving Bologna, 2002, a triptych of beakers...