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...forget last night's riverside gala, Prince Charles today, the Secretary of State tomorrow, or the fireworks extravaganza Saturday. Or, what crimson-faced Harvard officials continue to bill--for they must--as the heart of the event, the 106 academic symposia...
...press coverage deserved? Has Harvard earned the spotlight? It's tough to say, in part because the University has made no effort to use its birthday as an opportunity for introspection. Around campus these days, people seem more concerned about where they're sitting at the Stadium gala than whether Harvard's succeeded in its educational mission. And maybe that's understandable. Why? Because what's happening this week is a party. Hardly plain and simple, but a party nonetheless...
Rosanna A. Orfield '98 spent spring recess last year with Messinger at the heart of New York politics, attending staff meetings, briefings and gala events...
...Vienna I Love (Philips), a collection of waltzes, marches and snippets from familiar operas, performed by Andre Rieu, a Dutch violinist who looks a bit like Mel Gibson. At No. 8 was Rieu's From Holland with Love. Poised just below the chart was his newest release, Strauss Gala. This impressive lineup has made Rieu, at least for the moment, one of the hottest acts in classical music--rivaling Luciano Pavarotti, Kathleen Battle, even David Helfgott, whose recording of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto returned to the top spot, ending the Dutchman's two-week stay in that position...
...which puts him a few lengths behind another recent secret groom, LARRY KING, who got married for the seventh time in a private ceremony last week, three days before he was scheduled to undergo angioplasty to clear a blocked blood vessel. The wedding, which was originally to be a gala, star-studded affair, was held a day early because of the operation. On this occasion the happy bride was SHAWN SOUTHWICK, herself a veteran of two prior unions...