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...favor of the brass. Muffled and shy in the Brahms, the entire horn section produced less power than any single counterpart of the legendary Chicago Symphony Orchestra of the 1970s. This absence of inspiration was particularly disappointing in the finale, but by this time Tate had ceased trying to goad the BSO to action. Whether from frustration or disinterest, his take on the Brahms offered few surprises in phrasing and even fewer variations in dynamics and tempi. Only the mellifluous soli of the winds merited much remembrance...
With the capital campaign theoretically raising enough money to create 90 new Faculty positions, right now is the time to encourage progress and goad it along with vocal support and the weapon that strikes Harvard's heel: money. Already, the Committee for the Equality of Women at Harvard has received $500,000 from alumnae that it plans to hold in escrow until the University has tenured an acceptable number of women--specifically, the standpoint set by the University report of 1970. And the senior class has established the Alternative Senior Gift Fund with the same criterion for its release...
...intense criticism. With the capital campaign theoretically raising enough money to create 90 new Faculty positions, and a genuine commitment on the part of the Harvard community to make Harvard a place that offers equal opportunity to women and men, right now is the time to encourage progress and goad it along with vocal support and the vigorous conviction that Rudenstine's goals are the right ones...
...reform-minded politicians, businessmen and academics who worked for Yeltsin's electoral victory last year had hoped to goad Yeltsin into action by appealing to his desire for a prominent place in history. They wanted structural reform of the country's outdated industrial sector, along with dramatic measures to encourage foreign investment. They wanted a new tax code to replace the current unwieldy and unenforceable law. And they wanted to restore law and order. None of this has happened, nor is likely to happen in the foreseeable future...
...Ballmer is Gates' social goad, his intellectual one is Nathan Myhrvold (pronounced Meer-voll), 37, who likes to joke that he's got more degrees than a thermometer, including a doctorate in physics from Princeton. With a fast and exuberant laugh, he has a passion for subjects ranging from technology (he heads Microsoft's advanced-research group) to dinosaurs (he's about to publish a paper on the aerodynamics of the apatosaurus tail) to cooking. He sometimes moonlights as a chef at Rover's, a French restaurant in Seattle...