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Tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Carmichael Auditorium on the campus of the University of North Carolina, the Harvard women's basketball team will face No. 1 seeded UNC in the first round of the NCAA Tournament...
...ticketed departing speech by former Secretary of State Warren Christopher comes to mind as an example of a particularly sparse audience.) With the exception of world leaders, the auditorium is ordinarily filled only by such names as John F. Kennedy Jr. and Barbra Streisand--and these names get top billing. So when we see a packed reception for political lackeys, we can only conclude that they are celebrities themselves...
Five professors gathered in Boylston Auditorium yesterday afternoon to debate the changing role of ethnic studies on college campuses...
...scene is a Manhattan skyscraper. a computer guy named Rob Glaser is standing at a PC. A projector beams a jumbo image of his screen across an auditorium. As reporters gather to watch, the demo begins. Glaser clicks on an icon and, through a miracle of high-speed compression and decompression, a Counting Crows music video streams from a computer in Seattle onto the screen in New York. It's live video, transmitted over the Internet, and even people using plain old phone lines and standard modems can have it. I thought of those first frames of Neil Armstrong...
Some years ago, I was watching the Academy Awards on one channel, staring at the shimmering people. And then I flipped to another channel where the news was showing some 80 dead bodies swaddled in body bags on the floor of an auditorium. They were the victims of the Happy Land social club fire in the Bronx. Flip: the Academy Awards. Flip: the dead of the Bronx. I wondered how these things fit together in the world. Would there be a movie made of the Happy Land fire? Would it win an Oscar...