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Sparkles in their eyes, their long hair graying now, bearded men in jeans scan the crowd for familiar faces. In something resembling a crossover between a Woodstock reunion and an academic conference, several hundred of them - interspersed by the rare business suit - gathered at a church in downtown Prague to celebrate an act of courage they jointly undertook 30 years ago. In 1977, a decade after Soviet tanks had crushed the last flowering of free expression on their city's streets, these men and women signed Charter 77, a human-rights declaration demanding freedoms suppressed by the totalitarian communist regime...
NICHOLAS M. CIARELLI ’08 of New Woodstock, N.Y. and Mather House Executive Editor...
High-ranking Vatican sources say Benedict will avoid repeating the Islam-and-violence trope in any form as blatant as Regensburg's. Instead, suggests Father Thomas Reese, a senior research fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center in Washington, an independent nonprofit institute at Georgetown, the Pope may take a less broad-brush approach to the issue by repeating his sentiment from Cologne: "He could say, 'You, like me, are concerned about terrorism' and he would like to see Islamic clerics be more up front condemning it." Once over the hump, happier topics should be easy to find. "Quite frankly," says...
...designed lighting for the original Woodstock rock festival, for the Boston Ballet and for the New England Aquarium. And then there were 30 to 40 student shows a year at Harvard. Yesterday his friends and family remembered Alan P, Symonds ’69-76 with, among other things, an original composition commemorating the notorious fire safety speech with which he preceded performances. “There was as much crying as there was laughing,” said Matt J. Corriel ’05 who performed “The Fire Speech Song...
...could accuseDavid Crosby of having led aboring life. A founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the veteran musician has made even more headlines for his turbulent personal life. Crosby, who appeared at Woodstock, has gone to prison for possession of a firearm and drugs, been in a serious motorcycle crash, gone broke, taken heroin, had a liver transplant and fathered six children, two of them as a sperm donor. He recounts his colorful story in his new book, Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About It (Putnam), which will...