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When Elvis Presley died, 25,000 people gathered outside Graceland in the sweltering Memphis heat. John Lennon's murder drew millions of people to Central Park for a silent vigil. But when Buddy Holly's plane went down in an Iowa cornfield at a little past 1 a.m. on Feb. 3, 1959, there was nobody waiting for him among those swirling snowdrifts. The Lubbock, Texas singer never had a vigil. His home did not become a pilgrimage site and his family never held a memorial service for his fans. Yet with each passing decade, the myth of Buddy Holly...
...cameras outweighed any potential benefits. “They are the local manifestation of the closing down of our privacy,” said Nancy Ryan, former president of the Mass. American Civil Liberties Union. Ryan was one of several ACLU associates who spoke at the meeting, which drew a crowd that filled the room and overflowed into the hallway. Other residents brought up the possibility that the cameras might have a detrimental effect on residents’ first amendment rights. Approximately 180 cameras have been installed in the Boston metropolitan area, according to Donald E. McGough, director...
University President Drew G. Faust addressed a crowd of inquisitive students at last night’s Undergraduate Council meeting, fielding questions on subjects ranging from the University’s response to the current financial crisis to the Reserve Officer Training Corps’ absence from campus...
...Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran, even the tinest flower embodied the divine being. His moving defenses of river and plain, forest and countryside drew from a deep spiritual connection to nature. “My God-state,” he wrote, “is sustained by the beauty you behold wheresoever you lift your eyes; a beauty which is Nature in all her forms...
...Mitchell led an international fact-finding team looking into the roots of the Palestinian uprising known as the Intifadah. He drew a line connecting Palestinian anger to the spread of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and that line is still there, only more indelible. The leftist Hebrew daily Ha'aretz on Friday published a confidential report from the Israeli defense ministry stating that over 75% of construction in settlements ever built was done without the proper permits, and much of the building was carried out illegally on private Palestinian land...