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...town--in the 1890s, it was proposed that a sign above the rear of Symphony Hall should read "exit in case of Brahms." No one ran for the door, however, as Haitink masterfully mustered a grandiose yet precise reading. At the risk of iconoclasm, his technique is much clearer and less irksome than Uncle Seiji's. To be fair, however, the first movement lost focus en route to the slinky final recapitulation...

Author: By By MATTHEW A. carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Classical Stuff | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

President Clinton's speech last week about the bombing raids he had ordered on Serbia followed in a long tradition of such pronouncements from the Oval Office. Apart from the cut of their suits, not all that much has changed over the decades: the desks are clearer, the future just as cloudy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Presidents Attack | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...their gullibility. The companies, which include American Family Enterprises (partly owned by Time Inc., publisher of TIME), Publishers Clearing House and the Reader's Digest Association, might prefer to avoid regulation. They testified that contest rules and odds are being made clearer and that the names of people who spend exorbitant amounts of money on subscriptions in the hope of improving their odds were being dropped from their lists. That might avoid the complications created by one elderly contestant who signed up for magazines stretching until 2086. The subscriber then died, presumably wiser but poorer. His estate is trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sweepstakes Under Scrutiny | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Ryan would not say when an official policy would be announced and did not say when a clearer decision about an outside monitor would be made...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: University Endorses Full Disclosure Policy | 3/10/1999 | See Source »

Both the federal government and Harvard's owncorporation have demanded clearer and more regularreports from the different schools...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: University Accounting Overhaul Year Behind, Over Budget | 3/9/1999 | See Source »

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