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Even though the Corporation missed appointing an academic, they still could have done more to broaden their collective experience. Other universities boast senators, cardinals and federal judges on their governing boards. Harvard maintains a diverse crop on its board of Overseers, but they have so little power that they weren't even informed when former provost Jerry R. Green resigned or when Rudenstine took a medical leave of absence...
Thomas' 21st Century Blues from da Hood, with its unusual but mostly successful attempt to combine blues and rap, is the most ambitious of the three new CDs. His songs boast a crunching blues beat, brash guitars and howling harmonica solos. Thomas, 29, tries to bring the blues into the present. As he sings on the title track, "Whoever says the blues was dead/ Needs to come where I'm from where the streets are red." It's a gutsy album that works best when Thomas stops rapping and lets his music do the talking...
...living in the Yard, though boast of havingcompleted this part of the three-step traditionseveral times. "I've pissed on the base [of thestatue]. That's easy. It'd be harder to get it onthe knees or the face," says one first-year withtoo much leisure time...
...Phil Gramm has been traversing the country with a slickly produced slide show designed as much to intimidate opposing fund raisers as to shake the tree for himself. This week Bob Dole is preparing his third direct-mail drop in nearly as many months. And while candidates like to boast about the number of days they've spent in hurdling snowdrifts in New Hampshire and sampling sausage in Iowa, they're less forthcoming about the many trips to beg in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami and Aspen, Colorado, where the real money...
...each operative identifies 10 to 20 people who can each give $1,000, the maximum allowed by law. Each donor is then pressed to identify another 10 to 20 friends to do the same. The complex task of assembling so many names helps explain why veteran fund raisers, who boast networks of anywhere from 2,500 to 10,000 potential donors, have been courted so heavily by Dole, Gramm and Alexander in 1994 and 1995. "The objective is to find 20,000 people to give you $1,000 each," says Wayne Berman, a top G.O.P. fund raiser who is being...