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...epitomize Christmas ritual: I love them not for the way they sound but for the way they are sung in the Rooster Church in December, when everyone’s voices blend to share the “Coventry Carol” as it has been shared since the sixteenth century...
...scrawled his list at age 16. Sarokhan says this is a coincidence—he wrote his list before learning about Washington’s. The two lists have some parallels. While Washington’s list, which was borrowed from a collection of maxims that originated in late sixteenth-century France, includes the instruction to “Use no Reproachfull Language against any one neither Curse nor Revile,” Sarokhan’s list says, “Don’t cuss.” And while Washington reminded himself to “Gaze...
...Price-Bullington is the longest running independent collegiate tournament in the country, and is an invitation-only affair. Fifteen of the top collegiate players in the country are invited to compete, and a sixteenth player earns a spot by winning a qualifying event locally in Virginia. Currently, Harvard’s top three players are Broadbent, junior James Bullock and Patterson, respectively, but Bullock was unable to attend due to an academic commitment...
...case that has haunted Birmingham, Ala. and is credited with awakening the nation to the savagery of the civil rights struggle in the South finally came to an end. Former Ku Klux Klansman Cherry, 71, was found guilty of four counts of murder in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963 that killed four young girls...
...Frank Sikora covered the civil rights movement in Birmingham and is the author of the 1991 book "Until Justice Rolls Down" which chronicled the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, and "Selma, Lord, Selma," a verbal history of the civil rights struggle in that Alabama city...