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...part of the Crimson's celebration of the Arnold Arboretum centennial, it will continue its popular custom of publishing only on Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays during exam period in order to preserve as many trees as possible for the enjoyment of future generations of Harvard men. Therefore, there will be no Crimson delivered to your doorstep tomorrow, unless it's this...
...Second Brandenburg used to be done as something of a trumpet concerto. Mercifully, this custom has passed; but the instrument's construction--producing a high, searing tone--give the trumpet a dominant role in the piece. Playing the piccolo trumpet. Robert Hazen noticeably tired in the final allegro, missing some high notes altogether and parts from sixteenth-note sequences. In the first movement, though, he was in much better from with a beautifully quiet tone that blended well with flute, oboe, and strings. peter Weiss played oboe unevenly: he was not sensitive to the dynamics of the other players...
...entering the Clarksville house at night and shooting the family as they slept-but so sloppily that they left fingerprints around. Within days, police had identified them. On top of that, said Huddleston, the boys did not even get all the money they had been promised. As was the custom, various officials had taken their cut as the money was passed down the line from headquarters. As Prosecutor Richard Sprague observed, "you had a kind of discount price for murder...
Paying reparations is an ancient custom, and although it is not often invoked in U.S. law, it may be making a comeback. This summer, a pilot Restitution House in the Minneapolis area plans to take in 25 prisoner volunteers -check forgers, burglars and the like -whose crimes involved only property. They will be employed in the community and repay their victims out of their earnings. The program excludes any prisoners convicted of violent crimes...
...custom in this city to bill a person who puts on an event that requires the presence of the police," she said. "This is also an attempt to reach the ear of the President. It is essential for people in authority to get to the press, to tell the young people demonstrating that we've heard what they said...