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...Although the guitar has long been the emblem of folk music, few of its early practitioners actually exploited the instrument beyond strumming chords in accompaniment. But among the few who did, Doc Watson stands as a monument of inventiveness and virtuosity. Now 77, Watson was the first to adapt the fiddle tunes at the core of the bluegrass idiom to the guitar, taking the instrument out of the background and putting it front and center, often solo, with a sparkling, rigorously precise flatpicking technique that is as fiendishly difficult as it is exciting - all the more remarkable for the fact...
...Although UConn was the clear favorite heading into the game, Harvard had the Huskies worried...
...although direct democracy is now possible through websites like Morris' Vote.com, Weisberg argued that it is still not desirable...
Lewis added that two additional Literature and Arts classes--one A, one C--may be offered this spring to make up for the loss of "Bible" and "Myth," although the specific courses have yet to be determined...
...Although U.S. District Judge Marylin H. Patel issued a preliminary injunction on July 27 that would have effectively shut the service down, the injunction was swiftly overturned without comment by the ninth circuit court of appeals...