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...lions seemed a tad catty on a night when the journalists' row stood visibly empty and the networks stood down - those watching Bradley, and then keynoter Rep. Harold Ford Jr., had to flip to stay ahead of the Teddy and Caroline tour of the convention-hall news desks. For Gore, who has many minds still to change, this night of challenging praise may prove bedeviling. Luckily for him, much of America wasn't watching...
...biography of the New York City mayor broke some news so startling and ironic that it even had Hillary clucking in sympathy. Rudy!, by investigative reporter Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice, reveals that the famous crime buster hails from a family of crooks. Rudy's deceased father Harold was convicted of burglary at 15 and armed robbery at 26; he went on to be a baseball-bat-wielding debt collector for Rudy's uncle Leo D'Avanzo, a "petty mafioso" loan shark. For Giuliani, who may not have known about his father's imprisonment (he won't comment...
...HAROLD GRACEY Irish Protestant leader refuses to denounce violence. Please, that's so 20th century...
...DIED. HAROLD NICHOLAS, 79, acrobatic tap dancer who with his older brother Fayard helped break the color barrier in Hollywood musicals; in New York City. Early in their career, the brothers' dizzying footwork and preternatural elegance was displayed onscreen, though never in the same scenes as their white counterparts. In 1948, however, their virtuosity landed them alongside Gene Kelly in The Pirate. The brothers awed such dance-world luminaries as Fred Astaire and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who called the Nicholas brothers "the most amazing dancers I've ever seen in my life--ever." They were honored by the Kennedy Center...
...wave of radical changes on campuses in the 1960s, most American colleges and universities have opened up their president and chancellor selection searches--which were previously limited to trustees and overseers--to formally include students, faculty and staff members. For example, the 1989 search for current Princeton University President Harold T. Shapiro involved one committee composed of trustees and another composed of students, faculty and staff. A similar system was used at Stanford, where one student sat on the search committee of 15 that recommended President John L. Hennessy last April. At both schools, administrators lauded the selection process...