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This weekend's tune is 'New York, New York,' as the Crimson travels to Colgate and Cornell to play two pivotal ECAC games. Because of its inconsistent play lately, Harvard (10-9 overall, 10-6 ECAC) cannot afford to look past tonight, when it faces the Red Raiders in Hamilton, N.Y. Yet Saturday's matchup against the ECAC-leading Big Red poses the biggest challenge for the Crimson...
They stopped twice during the march to pledge allegiance to American flags hanging in the street. Protesters also sang the national anthem twice, bringing the afternoon's total to four renditions of the old Francis Scott Key tune...
...Eager to tune in the overseas news, Americans bought shortwave radios and small portable TVs. Bookstores were jammed, their customers snapping up almost anything about Saddam and the Middle East. In Arlington, Va., Roy's Hobby & Craft Shop was selling the new $16 board game, Kuwait War. Superstitious types were buying crystals and such books as Nostradamus and Armageddon, Oil and the Mideast Crisis...
Memories of another, older war -- a war no one knows except from history -- were evoked for millions of Americans last summer by the ravishingly melancholy fiddle and guitar strains that accompanied the PBS series The Civil War. The haunting tune, called Ashokan Farewell, had been composed eight years earlier, one morning at the end of summer, by a lapsed '60s rocker turned upcountry fiddler named Jay Ungar. By wedding its beauty and timelessness to hundreds of graphic still photos, PBS created an affecting combination...
...tune wound up on an album by Ungar's group, Fiddle Fever (which also includes his fiance Molly Mason on guitar), and it was this version that caught the attention of Civil War director Ken Burns. Although Ungar was paid only $4,500 for the use of the song, and should see roughly an additional $25,000 from writer's royalties, there is a fair chance that his composition may become something of a classic. History always seems to require a lot of farewells...