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...bringing Harvard students together in one amphitheater proved to be a problem all its own. Barenboim’s lines about American exceptionalism drew loud laughter from a crowd that, at each lecture, left Sanders Theatre conspicuously unfilled...
...They come in to the office with a stack of dog-eared x-ray folders, a plastic grocery store bag full of reports and things printed off the Internet. Earnest and hopeful, they tell me they even apologize in advance to the patient crowd in the waiting room for the very long time they are about to take. They are coming in for a "second-opinion...
...miles separate St. Louis and Paris - Paris, France, that is, not Paris, Tennessee - and that distance was matched by the reality gap over the telephone on Tuesday night. On one end, Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat challenging Republican Senator Jim Talent, was defending her campaign to a crowd of party faithful, who crowded around a speaker phone to quiz seven Democratic candidates running in tight races against Republican incumbents. The Missouri state auditor sighed down the line: "You have to be here to understand what it's like here...
...whose campaigns are focused on local isues were eager to show off their international credentials on Tuesday night. "I lived in Japan for three years. I speak the language," said Daniel Seals, a 34-year-old African-American from Chicago (billed in advance of his call to the Paris crowd as possibly the next Barack Obama) who is trying to unseat Mark Kirk, the three-term Republican representative from Illinois' 10th Congressional District, in the city's tony North Shore suburbs. To the Americans in Europe, Seals was pitch-perfect, insisting that "Rumsfeld needs to go" and saying that...
...We’ll just have to wait and see if future programming—including a meditation seminar, a discussion of spirituality and womanhood, and movie nights—draws a bigger crowd. But when it comes right down to it, it seems to be the center’s insurmountable flaw that women today simply do not need it. And no amount of money or wise direction can change what is a fundamentally bad idea into so pivotal a center...