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...With a fife player and a drummer leading the way, about 100 inductees and a smaller number of Faculty--all dressed in full academic regalia--proceeded from Boylston Hall in the Yard to Sanders. There, away from the sweltering midday heat, the students and their supporters filled the entire bottom level of the theater...
...Graham Keegan, who has just begun her second term as Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, decided to enter politics when she was watching the impeachment and ouster of Governor Evan Mecham. After she became education chief, in 1995, Keegan battled with Governor--and soon to be convicted felon--Fife Symington. When she suggested that he resign, a Symington crony said she was having "a bad hair day." Last week Keegan joined Governor Jane Hull, secretary of state Betsey Bayless, treasurer Carol Springer and attorney general Janet Napolitano (the lone Democrat) in the nation's first all-female state administration...
...Several fife and drum corps and a high school marching band later, L. Scott Harshbarger '64 hit the Main Street parade route with the same determination to shake every outstretched hand...
What a birthday bash for those 148 men and women in flag-red coats and 23 gleaming brass buttons who make up America's most historic ensemble! President John Adams started it all when he signed the law creating the Marine Corps in 1798, including "a drum major, a fife major, and 32 drums and fifes." From that day Presidents demanded that the band be on hand to grace their moments of triumph and tragedy. And the band got bigger and better. Recently 35 euphonium players auditioned for one position, and all of them were turned down. Only the best...
...Northern Ireland Secretary," says Hillenbrand. "It's a conflict of two rights: The right to march and the right to have peace and quiet." The key to any agreement may turn out to be common courtesy. "Perhaps the Orange will march, but play down the fife-and-drum aspect, or march without banners," he says. But Hillenbrand warns that "this is the make-or-break weekend." Sunday is the anniversary of the victory of the Protestant King William of Orange over the Catholic King James II in 1690 -- which leaves both sides until then to defuse the bomb that...