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Because public television is blandly virtuous and soaks up smallish sums of tax money, almost no one but right-wing ideologues has ventured full-bore critiques. A 25th-anniversary report, put out last week by a task force of the usual Establishment suspects (Vartan Gregorian, Joe Califano, Tim Wirth and so on), provoked intriguing newspaper headlines (OVERHAUL PROPOSED, teased the Washington Post), but its reformist manifesto -- the 351 local PBS stations should get less federal money, the central programming apparatus should get more -- turned out to be tepid and intramural, a birthday wish list posing as tough-minded scrutiny...
Thousands of athletes, coaches, volunteers and spectators came to Harvard over the weekend for the 25th Massachusetts Special Olympics...
Gergen's arrival will bring turmoil in that key indicator of the White House pecking order: office assignments. "Now it really gets ugly," a staff member predicted. The joke was that the big tent going up on the South Lawn for the President's 25th Georgetown class reunion last week was actually a temporary shelter for homeless senior staff. On Saturday, chief of staff Thomas ("Mack") McLarty decreed that Gergen will move into the office of former communications director George Stephanopoulos, where the very fashionable shade of gray paint has barely had time to dry. Stephanopoulos, now a senior policy...
Yellin and Tucker, like Edelman, called for a sense of social responsibility and commitment to freedom, with Tucker delivering an imaginary "25th reunion" speech dwelling on the loss of American democracy in the year 2008 due to a failed commitment to social justice...
Although cozy contractual relationships simplify the task of organizers, they also can lead to inefficiency, prodigality, and arrangements that may compromise Harvard principles.CrimsonAndrew L. WrightThe Essex clubhouse. For decades, 25th reunion alumni enjoyed golf, tennis and symposia at the exclusive club...