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...laundry, and we admired him for walking down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day. Yet just a few weeks later we excoriated him for wearing a cardigan sweater and addressing us from the Oval Office on the energy crisis. There is this classic pendulum that swings back and forth. On the one hand, we want our presidents, if not necessarily to be of us, than certainly to be accessible to us. On the other hand, at various times in our history we also want to put them on a pedestal...
...recalls. "For years after I bought the Strad I could hear Jackie's [artistic] voice when I played, especially when I played Elgar. Perhaps all the hours she spent working on projecting a certain coloring and style minutely warped and changed the wood so that it more readily put forth her particular style. I don't know. But I'm sure of this: her musical presence remained in that instrument...
...Back & Forth...
...Senator Olympia Snowe started in December with a phone call from Joe Biden. The Vice President-elect made sure Snowe had his home telephone number in Delaware so she would know how to reach him on weekends. In the weeks that followed, the two traded memos back and forth about how an economic stimulus package should work. "I had an infinite number of ideas, because they had been stored up," says Snowe, a Maine Republican who never got that kind of treatment when her party controlled the White House. "Now somebody was listening." (See who's who in Obama...
...game, 9-1, to take the match, 3-2, and raise her career fifth-game record to 3-0.At the No. 2 flight, Guruge bounced back from her first defeat of the season against Trinity last Wednesday to upend the Quaker’s Sydney Scott in a back-and-forth five-game battle. Guruge played around disappointing showings in the first and fourth games to take the match, 4-9, 9-4, 9-7, 3-9, 9-6.—Staff writer Barret P. Kenny can be reached at bpkenny@fas.harvard.edu...