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...Anzac legend. Now, in The Great War (Macmillan; 860 pages), he looks at the Australians on the western front, the 750-km line of trenches that snaked through France and Belgium. In the national memory of the war, Gallipoli is the big event. Places like Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont Saint Quentin are "hardly spoken of," Carlyon writes. Yet they should be bywords for valor?and tragedy. Most of the 324,000 volunteers who sailed off to the war, and many who survived Gallipoli, served in the cold and mud of Flanders and the Somme. There "they did things Australians have never...
...Halloween, you see, is short for All Hallows' Eve, the night before All Saint's Day (Nov. 1), when Catholics pay homage to the souls of the faithful departed - the dead who've gone to heaven. (Nov. 2 is All Souls' Day, dedicated to the dead in Purgatory, doing time while their sins are cleansed.) It is not, as Satan proclaimed on South Park last week, a day for the devil. It's the day for those with the moral strength to reject the devil's seductions and escape eternal damnation. Nor is Halloween, in its religious sense, a time...
...while we're at it: Valentine's Day. It's a Catholic saint's feast - sorry, off limits, at least to those who won't say "Merry Christmas. My suggestion: "Happy Holintine...
...game road stretch on Tuesday night at Holy Cross.NOTESNyamekye celebrated his nineteenth birthday on Saturday with the goal-stopping thriller....The Crimson now has nine points in Ivy play....Brown held a 8-1-1 record entering play this past week, having sustained its only loss to No. 3 Saint Mary’s. Harvard will likely climb into the national rankings after its upset win.—Staff writer Gabriel M. Velez can be reached at gmvelez@fas.harvard.edu...
...took me awhile to get the hang of how college worked.” After graduation and a brief stint singing in Budapest, Mattison—who began as a stand-up bass player—found himself working a variety of jobs, including a reporting gig in Saint Paul followed by a day job in New York. Fortuitously, producer John Snyder, who would produce Scrapomatic’s first record in 2002, heard and admired the band and recommended Mattison to Derek Trucks, whose singer had recently left the band. Snyder’s recommendation, among others, inaugurated...