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...been given to the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World. A little over a year ago, a dramatic ceremony commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. For God's sake, it wasn't too long ago that there was a gala ceremony to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Spam...
...everyone's welcome to that evening's "American Gala," where the price of admission to the outdoor celebration will be a can of soup, blankets or clothing for the poor and homeless. In the tradition of Andrew Jackson, who ran in 1828 as a man of the common people, the Clintons will throw a reception for the public the day after they move into the White House. Taxpayers can only hope the Clintons have better luck than Old Hickory. His guests broke the furniture and spat tobacco juice in the corners...
...hear the prairie spaces and the melancholy of divided lives that were Cather's true territory in Maniacs songs like Stockton Gala Days and Gold Rush Brides. "Who were the homestead wives?" the latter asks. "The land was free, yet it cost their lives . . . In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moan as they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief." The words are printed like this in the album notes, as if they were bits of homespun prose from some cosmic farmer's almanac; but Merchant sings them with dreamy, insistent fervor, like...
...crowd of several hundred, including many local luminaries, turned out for the gala opening of Skipjack's. The restaurant, a self-described "seafood emporium," is located in the Charles Square Shops, near the Charles Hotel...
Last weekend, Princeton hosted this gala of early season hardball squash. Seniors Vanya Desai, Carrie Cunningham and Kathy Shergalis and sophomore Libby Eynon represented the Harvard women's squash team at the individual tourney...