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Maybe not, but they still warmed the heart. For if last week's ceremony lacked the breakthrough drama of its predecessor, it offered something the earlier accord did not--a blueprint for peace and reconciliation unprecedented in its scope and detail. Stage managers from the Clinton Administration did their bit to improve the mise-en-scene, having decided as long ago as last July that this ceremony, if it ever happened, would be enhanced by the presence of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and King Hussein of Jordan. Further hand-holding from the White House became necessary when Rabin and Arafat...
...Last spring Dr. Harold Varmus, head of the National Institutes of Health, appointed an independent committee of scientists to look into how the NIH spends its gene-therapy research dollars (some $200 million a year) and whether the government is getting its money's worth. "I've been a bit concerned that we weren't fulfilling the promise of gene therapy in any obvious way at this point," Varmus explains. "My intuition tells me that we need to emphasize more basic aspects of gene-therapy research...
...attracted to the Shops. "It needs to be cooler," she said. "I'm young and I spent a lot of time Harvard Square when I was in high school and college, and maybe they need some fresh perspective on design and presentation. The Shops are going through a bit of an identity crisis...
...demands on his time. It takes quite a bit of time to run a major corporation and with everything else, I'm not sure he'll have enough of that," says a source close to the University...
Next month Deutsche Grammophon presents a new series, "The Originals," consisting of new remasters of several recordings from the DG archives. These reissues, enhanced by a process called original-image bit-processing, make some gains in sound quality over the real originals. But more importantly, they bring exceptional, often legendary performances back to the market at relatively low prices. An excellent place to start is the reissue of conductor Carlos Kleiber's recordings of Beethoven's Symphonies No. 5 in C minor and No. 7 in A major with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra...