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...With the introduction of Mike Ghegan, sax player for opening band Fighting Gravity, in "All Around Us," the night began to soar with masterful jazz licks and playful exchanges between instruments. The band and guest jammed intensely through several numbers. After hearing a "Girl from Athens," I swore they couldn't get any better. Of course, I was wrong...

Author: By By SARAH D. redmond, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Pat McGee: Hot and Sticky | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

With the introduction of Mike Ghegan, sax player for opening band Fighting Gravity, in "All Around Us," the night began to soar with masterful jazz licks and playful exchanges between instruments. The band and guest jammed intensely through several numbers. After hearing a "Girl from Athens," I swore they couldn't get any better. Of course, I was wrong...

Author: By Sarah D. Redmond, | Title: Pat McGee hot & sticky | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...purification rite more than 4,500 years ago. To this day, it is an important religious ritual in Islamic and Jewish communities worldwide. Circumcision became popular in the U.S. in the early 1900s, in the belief that it promoted good hygiene and discouraged masturbation. World War II veterans swore by its health benefits in unsanitary tropical conditions. Currently, more than two-thirds of U.S. infant boys are circumcised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circumcision: Unkindest Cut? | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...sheriff, James DiPaulo, swore in the officers at an unofficial ceremony at the headquarters of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POLICE LOG | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...before his rise to the high court. In the 1960s he was the leader of Operation Eagle Eye, described by the Arizona Republic as "a flying squad of G.O.P. lawyers that swept through south Phoenix to question the right of minority voters to cast their ballots." The man who swore Rehnquist in as presiding officer of the trial, South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, ran for President in 1948 on the segregationist Dixiecrat ticket. These days Thurmond would prefer that you forget that youthful indiscretion, since he was only 45 at the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Right Back at You | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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