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...decades thereafter, I was unconditionally with Spector and Irving Berlin, on the "Merry Christmas" side of the debate - until the last few years, when some evangelicals and their media handmaidens made a big hairy deal about the meaning of Christmas. Like the stern secularists, they got it wrong too, insisting that Christmas was primarily a religious feast. Earlier, I was being a tad facetious about Halloween, but the professional Christians are dead serious. They want "Merry Christmas" to mean "Join with me in honoring the one true Redeemer...
...reported last week that you were present, as a reserve Bedford County, Va., sheriff's deputy, at a police raid of an alleged child pornographer's home. But the police went to the wrong house, and the man has filed a complaint, saying he was "scared beyond description." What happened? Because I was there, everybody wants to make a big story about it. It ain't no story. We did everything right, went to the judge, got a warrant. You know, they make it seem like we beat him up, and that never happened. We went in, talked...
...best to correct the flaws that revealed themselves in the season-opening loss. “We’ll have a very tough week of practice,” Reese said. “We’ll have about two days of critiquing this game, what went wrong, what went right, and be ready to go against Clarkson.” —Staff writer Daniel J. Rubin-Wills can be reached at drubin@fas.harvard.edu...
...We’ll have a very tough week of practice,” Reese said. “We’ll have about two days of critiquing this game, what went wrong, what went right, and be ready to go against Clarkson...
...strong viola section. From the first funereal strains of the Mendelssohn symphony, it was clear that the orchestra—filled out with full brass, wind, and timpani—had reached the part of the concert for which it was best prepared. It is hard to go wrong with Mendelssohn’s winsome opening melody, and the orchestra passed it from one section to another with skill. The ornamented scherzo section of the first movement was bright and charming, and grew into an exciting frenzy. A difficult clarinet solo which opens the second movement was rendered with seeming...