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There's a hopeful buzz around Harvard's athletic fields, and it can only mean one thing...
...movie nears its debut this weekend, the uproar has settled into a generally respectful buzz. Shilts' prodigiously researched 600-page book has been boiled down to a fact-filled, dramatically coherent, occasionally moving 2 hours and 20 minutes. At a time when most made-for-TV movies have gone tabloid crazy, here is a rare one that tackles a big subject, raises the right issues, fights the good fight. That is both its strength and its weakness...
...comic Richard Lewis as the shrink is the sign of a show aiming for a more adult level of relationship comedy. But pairing him with Don Rickles (who barges into his son's group-therapy session to shout racial insults at everybody) puts us squarely back on the Fox buzz...
...look closely, the shave left quite a bit of stubble. The buzz in Washington revealed that the Clinton administration, if pressed, could have counted on at least five or so more votes. A number of Democratic senators decided, once the plan's approval was sure, to cast a no vote...
...John "Buzz" Sawhill notes that community service, through the Phillips Brooks House (PBH), was a more prevalent aspect of campus life in his era. "[Phillips Brooks House] was a highly regarded undergraduate program," he says. Sawhill participated in the seemingly divergent activities of ROTC and PBH. But he says the offices of both Harvard cadet colonel and PBH president shared the same ultimate goal: doing service. And the entire community, he says, shared his desire to serve. "Harvard undergraduates in the 1940s were involved," he says...