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With his reelection never in doubt, Kennedy, the senior senator from Massachusetts, relaxed and enjoyed the gala event in his honor last night, a buoyant celebration in Boston's Copley Plaza hotel, complete with local political bigwigs, free-flowing alcohol, bagpipes and hordes of Kennedy siblings, nieces, nephews and cousins...
...inauguration, like the search, was full of pomp and circumstance. Unlike the search, it was open. In a two-day gala--a far cry from Bok's 20-minute ceremony--Harvard featured famous faculty, alums and guests, including Yo-Yo Ma '76, Toni Morrison and Saul Bellow...
...week concluded with both candidates moving from the serious stage of the debates to the less staid platforms. Gore chatted with Rosie and Regis; Bush sat down with Letterman; and both of them pilloried themselves on "Saturday Night Live" and at a New York City gala. But the next handful of days will be short on yuks as the ground and air onslaught intensifies and the two candidates intensify their campaigning. "I tell you this," says Democratic consultant and Gore partisan Paul Begala, assessing the impact on voters: "no one will wake up Nov. 8 and not know what they...
Winners journeyed from the Netherlands, Scotland and Canada to accept their prizes. The gala ceremony recognized imaginative endeavors, ranging from levitating a frog with magnets to developing software that detects when a cat walks across a computer keyboard...
...periodically negotiates with his government on issues ranging from immigration to drug interdiction - this White House, like its seven predecessors, makes a point of publicly shunning the Cuban leader. Thus Crowley went out of his way to emphasize Thursday that Castro would not be welcome at President Clinton's gala event for world leaders at the Metropolitan Museum. Last time Clinton left the Cuban leader off his guest list, Castro upstaged him by holding a raucous pep rally in a Harlem church and stealing the front page. This time, by all accounts, he simply passed a quiet evening at Cuba...