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...days before Hendrix became a rock god. Surprisingly good drawings and watercolors by the teenage Hendrix include witty sketches of Elvis Presley. In the next gallery, video screens, earphones, photographs, posters, costumes and guitars document the Big Four of Hendrix concerts: London, Monterey, Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. A soundproof room offers a full-volume eight-minute extract from a Berkeley concert that includes Voodoo Chile and Johnny B. Goode. And starting Nov. 27, you can see the ultimate Hendrix icon: what's left of the Fender Stratocaster that he famously burned at the Monterey Festival. The annual Mois...
...danger involved was underscored in 1998 when a graduate student named Shawn Wight, 26, died of complications following a severe case of altitude sickness suffered while accompanying Thompson to the flanks of a 26,000-ft.-tall Himalayan peak. Wight's parents charged negligence and sued Ohio State for $21 million in damages. Although the judge dismissed the case and exonerated Thompson, the experience cast a pall over his high-altitude odysseys. "I don't understand," he says, "why anyone would want to climb a mountain...
Stonewall also moved to accommodate working parents' schedules. Guidance director Rebekah Wight began planning events on Saturday mornings, including a breakfast orientation for the parents of incoming freshmen. A group of active Stonewall parents is now trying to draw in other moms and dads, even before their kids get to high school. Constantino, in addition to tearing out the counter, has placed directional signs in both English and Spanish throughout Stonewall. "Most schools are incredibly intimidating places to a visitor," he says. Parents are encouraged to make evening use of the school's resources on college and career options...
...cold medicine and her favorite "pick-and- mix" snacks from Woolworth's when Phillips called the Blackmans' house on July 3. Lucie's parents, Tim and Jane, both in their mid-40s, had separated five years earlier. Tim lived one-and-a-half hours away on the Isle of Wight in an apartment with his girlfriend. The girls lived with their mother and 17-year-old brother, Rupert. They were renters, not owners, but comfortably middle class. Everyone except Rupert worked. Jane was a therapist for cancer patients. Tim had a small home-building company...
...William P. Bohlen '01, a government concentrator in Pforzheimer House, is Co-Sports Editor of The Harvard Crimson. In subsequent dreams, he has opened for The Velvet Underground in Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable and sat in with The Who at the Isle of Wight Festival...