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...then the glaring sun disappeared over the shoulders of the trumpeters on the crest of the stadium, the countdown to the opening ceremony picked up steam (Athens 1896, Paris 1900...Barcelona 1992), and the show was under way. In moments the stadium found itself sheathed in fabric of the five Olympic colors as members of five different tribes poured out and flew down onto the field. Little white sprites appeared, dancing to the irresistible beat and weaving their way through the tribes. Out of the delirious chaos came a formation, and presto, the tribes became the Olympic rings, and then...
...crest of Boston's Beacon Hill, a bronze monument portrays Colonel Robert Gould Shaw leading the black soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in their assault on Fort Wagner, South Carolina, in July 1863--a battle that cost the young aristocrat and nearly a hundred of his troops their lives. When the Union army asked for his body, a Confederate officer replied, "We have buried him with his niggers." Shaw's sacrifice--memorialized by the poet James Russell Lowell as a "death for noble ends"--has become an emblem of the lofty idealism that inspired New England's 19th...
...singer in a more worldly direction. Collaborating with Canadian producer-guitarist Michael Brook, Khan ventures into songs about earthly rather than religious love. On the song My Heart, My Life, he also experiments with phrasing that is more direct than the ethereal style of his qawwali work. On Crest, he reels off spiraling vocals over a beat that is almost funky. Says Khan: "I am trying to give my voice greater range." Purists may not like the fact that he's recorded such brazenly entertaining secular songs. No matter. Get out your popcorn. The subtitles have melted away...
...banner, which Adams House Superintendent William B. Long reported missing last Thursday, exhibits the Adams House oakleaf crest...
...next stop, in Moscow, would have shocked most members of TIME's first Newstour, in 1963, in which Khrushchev was interviewed. We visited a budding stock exchange and splashy Western stores. We met opposition parliamentarians as well as Chernomyrdin. Standing beneath the crest of the Czars--a huge gold double-headed eagle--he criticized Washington's plans for expanding NATO, affirmed he "was on the same team as President Yeltsin," despite speculation that they might both run for President next year, and asked the West to be patient in helping Russia modernize. "You can never go to sleep...