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...madman. The death of George Harrison, 58, of cancer in Los Angeles this week is something different. It's the sadly natural passing of a guiding spirit of the 60s and a prince of classic rock. "All Things Must Pass," was the title of Harrison's post-Beatles solo album in 1970. It could also be his epitaph...
...Harrison's greatest accomplishment, however, was showing the world how to be part of a band. Lead guitarists are often judged by their solos and their flashy onstage antics. The Beatles were a real band, with each contributing to the whole. Harrison, between "All Things Must Pass," his work with the Traveling Wilburys and his work as a film producer ("Time Bandits" and "Monty Python's Life of Brian") had a solid solo career, but his best work was still was the Beatles. The same is true of John Lennon, Paul McCartney - they were good, sometimes even great, solo...
...PEN/Faulkner Award winner, is too old for playground basketball, the game he loves. He is the perfect age, however, to drift back and examine his rise from ghetto prodigy to Ivy League hoops star to literary Brahmin. At all phases playground ball is there, teaching creativity, the difference between "solo triumph" and group participation, and other life lessons. There are too many basketball-is-like-jazz musings, but at its best moments, Hoop Roots brings a touch of Proust to the blacktop...
Nobody is pursuing the dream of solo flight with more fervor than two Americans, Paul Moller and Michael Moshier. They have very different ideas of what a personal flyer should look like, but each is equally convinced that his vision--decades in the works--is about to come true...
...coming in on a two-game winning streak, opened up the match by building an early 21-16 lead. After a timeout, Harvard stormed back behind a strong defense and a flurry of errors by the Big Red. Freshman Kaego Ogbechie, who recorded 16 kills, four aces and four solo blocks, propelled Harvard to a 30-26 lead...