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...Steen said he hopes to add a segment by Music Department Chair Thomas Kelly on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony sometime in the near future...
...Crimson men finished eleventh overall in the 3-weapon competition, including ninth in the foil and epee and eleventh in the saber. None of the men qualified for individual honors, but freshman Derek Lindblom (6-6 Epee B) came close...
...father's son. Born in Kannapolis, N.C., in 1951, he didn't take naturally to school--he would drop out in the ninth grade--but loved being around cars. Ralph Earnhardt, known as Ironheart, was a short-track racing god and taught his son to wrangle a stock car. Dale married at 17, and he and his first wife had a son, Kerry. By the time he began his pro racing career at age 24 in 1975, Earnhardt had a young family to support and, more than most other drivers, was all business and no fooling. When strapped for cash...
Dale Earnhardt left school in the ninth grade and entered his first race, legend has it, for grocery money. At the time of his death, his income had reached nearly $27 million a year. Mostly the money came from sales of merchandise: hats, jackets and the No. 3 logo sticker on the back of my family car that occasionally earns me a knowing honk and a wave from a like-minded fan, even during my blue-state commute to New York City...
...Christians needn't be entirely smug on the subject of destroying holy images. Iconoclasm (literally, the breaking of images) was the name of an eighth- and ninth-century movement in the Eastern church against the worship of holy pictures. In 753, the Emperor Constantine summoned a great synod to forbid image-worship forever. The synod declared it blasphemous to represent, by the dead materials of paint and carved stone, those who live with Christ. The bishops damned image-worshipers as idolators (and there is a commandment about that, is there not?). Pictures of the saints in churches were replaced...