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Beevor also gives considerable weight - two-thirds of the book - to the bloody fighting that took place in the weeks following D-day. Bad as the beach landings were, there was even worse to come...
...Ludovic Kennedy, a broadcaster and writer of high seriousness, who died Oct. 18 at 89. A Briton of aristocratic lineage, Kennedy was an advocate of foxhunting and showed something of that merciless instinct in his investigative journalism, which he devoted to exposing miscarriages of justice. His book 10 Rillington Place inspired the posthumous pardon of Timothy Evans, a young Englishman wrongly executed for murder in 1950, and hastened Britain's abolition of the death penalty. The Airman and the Carpenter, Kennedy's exploration of the kidnapping and killing of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, failed to achieve a similar result...
...from $59,700 in August 2005 to $8,000 just two months ago. "You could argue that one reason the homes are less expensive in the city is the level of services isn't as high," he says. "If there's some way we can make this a better place to live, these homes will actually be worth a lot more in the long term...
Band reunions, which take place every five years, always coincide with the annual Montage Concert, a centerpiece of the University Band and the subsidiary Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band. This year, the montage concert featured the Harvard Medley, a special arrangement of Harvard songs that was created by former Band Director and famous composer Leroy Anderson, the man behind the memorable holiday tune “Sleigh Ride.” The medley included such favorites as “Harvardiana,” “10,000 Men of Harvard...
With its blend of humor, musicality, and longstanding tradition, the Harvard University Band clearly holds a special place in the hearts of many. As the words of Prop Crew Manager William D. Ramsey ’12 well summarize: “I love Band because it is spontaneous, fun-loving and tradition-filled, without ever losing sight of the quality of the music...