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...digits on his right hand and all but two on his left. His fingers, which once flew over the frets at Mach 2, could hardly do the walking. "You know, I can't do what I used to do when I was 20 or 30," he told David John Farinella. "With the arthritis I got - Christ, I got no fingers. But what I got, I play. A knuckle here, a knuckle there. You forget about the arthritis and everything else when you're playing...
...radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he wired his guitar to radios stage right and left - voilà, stereo! "If you can be an engineer and a musician," he told David John Farinella for a biographical sketch in the 1999 Encyclopedia of Record Producers, "that's very complementary...
Despite investor worries about the U.S. debt, China's excesses and commercial real estate the world over, veteran global investor Barton Biggs says the global recovery now unfolding is going to be powerful. Biggs, who heads New York hedge fund Traxis Partners, spoke with TIME contributing editor John Curran on the outlook for world stock markets. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...Harvard licenses its various trademarks to many clothing manufacturers, such as the Harvard Co-op. The University maintains over 100 domestic and international licensees, wrote University spokesman John Longbrake in an e-mail. "This type of licensing project is actually nothing new for Harvard, since the University has always licensed a wide range of apparel products worldwide, including high end items," Longbrake wrote. The Harvard Trademark Program's website states, "Typically, the University licenses select goods such as apparel, novelty items, and stationery products and other 'traditional' licensed items...
Scheungraber's conviction marks the end of what is likely to be one of Germany's last Nazi war-crimes trials. John Demjanjuk, 89, is currently sitting in a Munich prison awaiting trial, after having been charged with being an accessory to the murder of 27,900 Jews while he was a guard at the Nazi concentration camp Sobibor. No date has been set, but doctors confirmed recently that he's fit to stand trial. It remains to be seen how Demjanjuk's trial will be affected by Tuesday's verdict, which sends a clear signal that the consequences...