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...primary unwritten law of selecting a vice-presidential candidate is to balance the ticket. A secondary law often has been to delay the announcement so as to inject suspense into an otherwise bland convention. Bill Clinton shattered both precepts. Four days before the opening of the Democratic Convention he chose, of all potential running mates, the one closest to being a carbon copy of himself: Tennessee Senator Al Gore. Besides hailing from neighboring mid-South states and swimming in the centrist mainstream of the party, they are close enough in age (Clinton is 45, Gore 44) to form the first...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Barbara Burke, Val Castronovo, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Andrew Purvis, Michael Quinn, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...
...million slab that got all the attention; the $22 million interior renovation of Wright's building (which cost $7 million in 1959) was mentioned only passingly. Now that the work is finished and the doors are open, that fever ratio should reverse itself: the slab is a bland and only slightly annoying intrusion, while Gwathmey's intelligent, intricate, loving work inside is a revelation, making it a far, far better museum than it has ever been...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Barbara Burke, Val Castronovo, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Andrew Purvis, Michael Quinn, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Susanne Washburn, Linda Young...
...Winthrop Street offers Japanese and Korean fare--sushi, barbecued meats and noodle soups. Real noodle fanatics will want to take the T to Porter and walk to the Porter Square Exchange to find a food court of Japanese noodle restaurants. The noodle soups there are a bit salty and bland, but can provide a pleasant change of pace from typical Harvard Square offerings...