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From the outset the Kennedy School administration planned an exclusive event aimed at reinforcing the perception that Harvard is a natural center for training the nation's elite. Big names would rise to offer the usual platitudes, panels of experts would debate and a Black Tie Gala would top off the festivities...
...GALA OPENING of the new Kennedy School of Government Saturday provided sharp contrasts and contradictions that were almost lost in the hoopla of the Big Green and the Head of the Charles...
...DEDICATION of the Kennedy School of Government last Saturday was a sorry start for an institution that boasts it will be able to keep Harvard University in touch with the "real world." For despite all the carefully prepared media fanfare, the speeches by notables and the celebrity gala that followed, the school's administration proved that it is sadly out of touch with one of the most pressing issues of that real world: the struggle for human rights in South Africa...
...more venerated than any socialist leader: Czech Composer Leoš Janáček. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its composer's death and the 125th of his birth, Brno has opened a yearlong Janacek celebration, beginning with 27 musical events in a two-week-long gala festival. Students, soldiers and scores of foreign scholars jammed six concert halls for the performances, including fully staged productions of all nine Janáček operas. Workmen bawled the great man's songs in local bars. Interpreters translated learned musical discourse in three languages (Czech, German and Russian...
Annual Scholarship Fund Gala. The Dome and Great Hall, Quincy Market., 8:30-12:30. Shuttle service available. Admission $4, $3 students...