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...season. “We had a lot of wind, some very high wind, very near us,” Graves said. “A 20-degree temperature drop, rain, snow, sleet...the weather conditions particularly during the women’s cross country race were very rare.” “It was particularly tricky because of the weather on Friday,” said women’s nordic captain Jennifer Harlow. “We saw everything from rain to hail to lighting to snow. The wind was crazy, and it made it difficult...
...exceptional 1958 Flentrop organ. For those used to the muddy and sometimes overpowering groans of Memorial Church’s giant organ, the bright, clean sound of the Flentrop will be a welcome relief, especially when combined with Scott’s brilliant technique. Organ recitals have become increasingly rare since the instrument’s modern glory days ending just after the mid-twentieth-century. The recent exodus of British organists to the United States, however, could reverse this unfortunate trend. John Scott is the latest, and the most skilled, of these renowned expat musicians. Formerly the director...
...rare but gratifying moment. The arena rammed with music executives momentarily fell into a stunned silence. Then, the words: "And the 1999 Brit Award for best breakthrough act goes to: Belle and Sebastian" percolated through fogged brains, and noiseless shock gave way to intense chatter. Some questioned the result, but most just wanted to know, "Who the hell are Belle and Sebastian?" One exec thought they might be a firm of music lawyers. Pete Waterman, producer of Steps - the chart-topping pop puppets perceived as shoo-ins for the award - demanded an investigation. And so the bookish, reclusive Glasgow group...
...Captain Shonnel Makwakwa, it was a rare assignment"outside the wire": a chance to break the monotony of life on the base and get out onto the streets of Baghdad. But it didn't take long to realize that this was no routine mission. Minutes after Makwakwa's humvee pulled out of Camp Liberty last December, bad news crackled over the radio: a supply convoy of six 18-wheel trucks was ambushed at Checkpoint 50, a freeway cloverleaf that is a notorious shooting alley for insurgents. Makwakwa, a bright, fit New Orleans native, handles medical logistics for the U.S. 10th...
...around his tiny village of Tawke, where 30 families eke out a meager living herding sheep. It hardly looks like the location for a major economic boom. "We are poor," he says, sitting on his bunk during a break between shifts last month, when TIME was invited for a rare visit to the oil operation. "We have nothing...