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...that he is almost a candidate, how is the fussy, hygienic Donald to keep his sanity in an election year's orgies of grip-and-grin? Mingling with the unwashed, he will presumably shake tens of thousands of germy hands. The most graceful substitute--the Hindu namaste (slight bow, hands clasped near the heart as in prayer)--would not play well in American politics. One alternative might be to shake your own hand, brandishing the two-handed clutch in front of your face like a champ while looking the voter in the eye. No. Too much self-congratulation. A politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pressing the Germy Flesh | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

...over the balcony's edge. A crowd of performers is milling in the wings, brocaded and beribboned. In the pit a harpsichordist is bent over his instrument like a hermit at his orisons, wielding the tiny crucifix of a tuning key. A Cupid darts across the unclothed scene, her bow unstrung and one wing dangling. Someone jostles the stringed spear of a chitarrone, and two primped and padded militaries saunter on stage left. This is the dress rehearsal of Cavalli's Giasone, a baroque opera put on by the Harvard Early Music Society...

Author: By Jérôme L. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Baroque Fixed in Giasone | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...that parking complex on the corner of JFK and Eliot St. It's always abandoned, and you have a nice overview of the campus. I also love to hang out in Charlie's Kitchen and the 7-11, because they're so far removed from Harvard's obsession with bow ties, titles, high tables, and celebrities...

Author: By Alicia A. Carrasquillo, Sarah L. Gore, and Samuel Hornblower, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Professor Fun Facts | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

...long-running Robert Winters, a Harvard math preceptor, and David Trumbull, the bow-tied token Republican, attempted once again to break into the ranks--and failed...

Author: By Kirstin E. Meyer and M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Voter Turnout Lowest in Recent Memory | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...might be a typical scene from a typical school, but Birkett--dressed in a black-checked bow tie and coordinating jacket--oversees Cambridge's only charter school...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Charter Against Bureaucracy | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

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