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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Madeleine Albright, set to become the nation's first woman Secretary of State, began confirmation hearings Wednesday before a friendly Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It's been a real love-fest" reports TIME diplomatic correspondent Dean Fischer after the first day of hearings. Having served four years as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and proven herself an expert on European affairs, Albright is well known to the committee, but today's hearing provided senators with a chance to explore Albright's positions issue by issue. As the woman who delivered the head of former U.N. Secretary...
...finally, "Strange Brew" is a weird, Canadian comedy about a couple guys going around drinking beer. They then uncover a plot by a brewer to take over the world by putting mind-control ingredients in the beer and bringing it to Oktober-fest...
...then, however, most of them were a little antsy, anticipating the last run of the Green line. Unfortunately, one can go blotto on sensory overload. Individually these suites represent landmark innovations in technical experimentation and extraordinary lyricism. All stuffed together like a blue-light-special, all-you-can-eat fest, they tend to blend together and become tragically diminished. Bravo to Mr. Wispelwey nevertheless for earnestly sculpting each suite with a combination of restraint, virtuosity and playfulness...
Disappointed by my failure to find, let alone rankle the MTV brass, I resolve to head for the Boston Common where the day's other political event is being held: the seventh annual Freedom Fest, a rally for marijuana legalization. But on the way to fetch some change for the T, I nearly trip over Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Literally...
HYPE should also be recognized for registering at least 400 voters during the rock-filled fest and for its efforts in enticing students to attend by closing some house dining halls, recruiting speakers like Susan Roosevelt Weld and George Stephanopoulos, and hiring bands like Expanding Man, Piraeus and Daily Planet. By making the afternoon fun, they showed how pop-culture and politics can work together to inform students about the power of voting. We encourage students to take advantage of events like HYPE in the future...