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...Roderico Harp, one of three American servicemen accused of raping a 12-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl, told a packed Japanese courtroom that U.S. military investigators coerced him into confessing to the crime. Harp, a 21-year-old Marine, testified at the Naha District Court that investigators from the Naval Criminal Investigative Services woke him at four in the morning two days after the incident. Harp said he told the investigators what happened, but they asked him to "go in another direction" and say what the "Japanese would like to hear." When the trial opened November 7, Harp and another Marine...
...house nearby and called home. She was admitted to a hospital where doctors determined that she had no serious physical injuries. Police quickly alerted U.S. military police, who traced the Subaru rental. A day after the assault, they detained Marine Privates Kendrick Ledet, 20, and Rodrico Harp, 21, and Navy Seaman Marcus Gill, 22. Ledet and Gill have since confessed to the allegations, while Harp is denying them...
...company financed the band's first record. For years Moloney, an accountant, and the others kept their day jobs; some dropped out. Of the original five, only Moloney and fiddler Martin Fay remain; the others are Conneff (percussion), Sean Keane (second fiddle), Matt Molloy (flute) and Derek Bell (harp and keyboards), whose dour banker's visage is uncapped onstage to reveal a wily mischiefmaker. "We keep the humor going," says Moloney. "I grew up in an atmosphere where music was about happiness and song." But the group's approach to their traditional airs is one of unawed connoisseurship. They...
...potato famines, Ireland is a place with a long history of hardship and an equally long tradition of singing about it. As a defining cultural activity, singing is for the Irish what baseball is for Americans or chess is for the Russians. Ireland's national symbol is a harp, the instrument used to accompany a singer, and the national genius, James Joyce, was probably more vain about his voice than his prose style...
...Martin, from 1944-45, launched the audience on a much more fulfilling journey. Its orchestration demands two separate string orchestras, harp, harpsichord and--completing the progression--piano. Currier House tutor and renowned local soloist Randall Hodgkinson joined the orchestra on piano along with the exquisite harp of Elizabeth Remy...