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...lobby of Atlanta's Peachtree Plaza Hotel featured a curious display last week: a large butter sculpture of a donkey. The perishable sculpture, as well as complimentary airline tickets and an elaborate reception at the Atlanta Historical Society, was intended to show the visiting Democratic National Policy Commission what an excellent host Atlanta could be for the Democratic National Convention in 1988. Although the Democratic and Republican political conventions are still more than two years away, selection committees are already touring the nation to check out arenas and exhibition halls at potential sites. Bidding is highly competitive: the Democrats have...
...Music Department. "Majors don't have anything to do with musical interest," says Pierce, a history concentrator. Though most Harvard music courses require proficiency with at least one musical instrument, Tcherepnin does not enforce this. Instead, the music professor says he looks for students who are open-minded, curious, and interested in learning. Pierce says she first discovered the course a few years ago when a friend brought her up to the electronic music studio on the third floor of Paine Hall. After talking to Tcherepnin, she was admitted on the basis of her determination and "the professor's vibes...
...BEST THING that I can do here is to pile on the kudos and to try to explain Gargantua to the curious and the hyperanalytical. The script is based on Pantagruel, a book written by Rabelais in 1532, and its subsequent prequel, Gargantua, written in 1534. Watson, a Medieval History and Literature concentrator, turned it into a script with a little help from his tutor...
...converts to such surround-sound effects will undoubtedly grow. "There are connoisseurs, and there are those who are just curious," says Joe Berini, chief engineer for KRON-TV in San Francisco, which went stereo last May. "Soon there will be people who just want to keep up with the Joneses." If only to drown out the noise coming from next door...
Historical Harvard-Wellesley ties sometimes beget new ones. "My parents met 25 years ago because my mother went to Wellesley and my father went to Harvard. I was curious so I thought I'd give it a shot," Vinton says. Did he succeed? "I went to a party and met a girl," he says...