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...year is the 300th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach.* Anyone who missed the St. Matthew Passion in Bach's hometown of Leipzig on his actual birthday, March 21, can sample Bach festivals in Hamburg, Berlin, Heidelberg and Stuttgart, as well as the nine-day Bachanalia on the island of Madeira in June. And if this seems a surfeit of baroque music, remember that June 16 is Bloomsday in Dublin, when admirers of James Joyce spend 18 hours retracing the steps of the hero of Ulysses from church to pub and onward...
...fine food in Portland, where Beard was born. There he developed a love and understanding of the best- quality seasonal ingredients prepared with infinite care, no matter how humble a dish might be. Beard had wide and eclectic preferences in foods, ranging from caviar to Cheerios, from elegant Madeira sauces to marshmallows, from French quenelles de brochet to New England codfish cakes. He had a special liking for pork, sausages and sauerkraut, a combination he loved equally in the form of an Alsatian choucroute garnie or a hot dog topped with kraut at a streetcorner stand...
Boston College: Grant 3-2-8; Madeira 10-2-22; Sweet 1-2-4; O'Doy 5-0-10; Thornton 3-2-8; Houghton 4-4-12; Sullivan 0-0-0; Roach 0-2-2; Haubrich 1-1-3; Robinson 2-0-4; Gervals 1-0-2; Hart 0-0-0; Totals...
...court decides whether a new trial is warranted. Meanwhile, life in prison continues for Harris, who celebrated her 60th birthday over the weekend. Now living in a special house with private rooms at New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, the former headmistress of Virginia's fashionable Madeira School for girls spends her mornings making quilts or writing, her afternoons working with expectant mothers. Even the prospect of eventual freedom holds no great joy. "I'm like a Pilgrim woman captured by Indians," says Harris, "who, when she is returned, belongs to neither world...
...play, it was difficult to tell that Harvard had made such a tight scouting report. The Eagles' baseline picks repeatedly caught up the Crimson defense B.C. used its forwards and low post to set fearsome picks that left the pocket shot open for some very sharp shooters Eagle Sally Madeira led all scores with eight points at halftime after hitting four of live. She finished up the game by leading all scorers with 17, just from waiting at the free throw line for passes...