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...Harvard women's tennis team upset ninth-ranked Pepperdine Thursday, 5-4, en route to Coach Ed Krass' 50th career victory and the Crimson's first-ever winning record on its annual West Coast whirl...
...MUSIC 50th ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION (Blue Note). JAZZ MASTERPIECES (Columbia). A digital swingfest! Two of the foremost chroniclers of American jazz have opened their vaults to bring some of the most outstanding performances of the past six decades to a new generation of listeners -- as well as to older fans who never heard the originals sound so good. Blue Note's five-volume anthology samples the works of such greats as Sidney Bechet, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. Columbia's offering, the latest...
...been a bittersweet month for Poland. Behind the elation over unprecedented political reforms and civil liberties lies a sour reminiscence. This month, Poland observes the 50th anniversary of its rape at the hands of the Germans and Soviets. In September 1939, these two countries ruthlessly violated Polish sovereignty and carved up the ancient state between them...
...move that was interpreted as a victory for reformers. In East Germany the government sought to rid itself of malcontents by handing out unprecedented numbers of exit permits, while thousands of other unhappy citizens simply fled over the Hungarian border. In Poland the Communist Party Politburo marked the 50th anniversary of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact -- whose secret protocols resulted in the partition of Poland at the onset of World War II -- by denouncing the agreement as a violation of "sanctified moral norms of international coexistence." Lest anyone miss the point, Polish opposition leader Lech Walesa spelled...
...50th-anniversary special on World War II concludes this week with a look at the nightmare years that led up to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor...