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Honk if you weren't asked to advise Barbra Streisand on her speech at Harvard last Friday. That was the joke among political pundits and media types as Streisand shopped her address, titled ``The Artist as Citizen,'' around to those who might help her in her quest to be taken seriously in front of 750 students and invited guests at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. To give an idea of just how much effort went into this event, says one of her advisers (who reportedly included ABC's Peter Jennings and the Los Angeles Times' Robert Scheer), consider...
...President's character--namely Paula Jones' pending sexual- harassment lawsuit and the federal investigation into Whitewater--words in a book can barely hurt him. Last week trustees of Clinton's legal-defense fund released a list of donors for its first six months of operation. Celebrities such as Barbra Streisand and Garrison Keillor each put up the maximum $1,000 contribution. So far, 5,865 people have donated $608,000, still short of Clinton's estimated legal expenses of as much as $2 million...
...Poor Barbra looked awfully silly up at the podium when her prepared speech, which alluded to Palto and quoted John F. Kennedy' 44-'46, among others was finished. When the teleprompter ran out of things for her to say, the celebrity was embarrassingly unable to respond to issues raised by Kennedy School and other students...
...mission, according to its brochures: "To inspire undergraduates to pursue careers in politics and public service Barbra does not fulfill that mission. It has a history of inviting heads of state, high-ranking administration officials and political writers to discussions with students...
...name to add to its honor roll of former guests, which includes Bill Clinton, Jack Kemp, Ann Richards, Nobel Winner Rigoberta Menchu and yes, even Newt Gingrich Now they can pencil in Barbra Streisand. Unfortunately, she's rain on the IOP's parade of consistent cutting-edge political relevance...