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...With a comparative dearth of heavy-breathing press coverage in between the candidates, Round Two of the presidential debates may well get lumped in with Tuesday's Round Three in the collective voter consciousness. Gore will hope he has encouraging news to relay from the White House, and will stay out of kindergarten-teacher mode when he's answering the questions of ordinary citizens in St. Louis. Bush, having cemented his position as at least a viable candidate, will have to keep up his momentum on foreign policy, and find some statesmanlike way to pin the current turmoil...
Fortunately for the English, a dearth of new talent just means a greater opportunity to do more Shakespeare. And despite the slight air of defeat in the idea of facing the new millennium with a string of 400 year old plays, it's hard to complain when there are so many worthy productions of the Bard. Leading the pack is the National Theater's new production of Hamlet, starring the incomparable Simon Russell Beale. Bringing a sensitivity and compassion to the title role beyond that found in almost all other stagings in memory, Beale has clearly solidified his position...
State-wide, however, the dearth of candidates lead to record low voter turn-outs. While some pundits said the low numbers were merely indicative of incumbent holding-power, others were disturbed by the civic implications of a non-voting public...
...problem is when the mutually reinforcing prestige of world leaders and the world's leading university converge, amidst a dearth of good background information. Not only do these leaders come home triumphantly smelling of ivy, but starstruck Harvard students flattered by receiving such pilgrimages are duped as well...
While the University tries to sell its summer school program as the complete Harvard experience, some summer school students have been disappointed this year by the dearth of "real" Harvard professors teaching their classes...