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Weathering both applause and derision, Graham has through the years become America's perennial deus ex machina, perpetually in motion, sweeping in to lift up spirits befuddled by modernity. When Presidents need to pray, it is Graham whom they call; he ministered to Dwight Eisenhower in the White House, spent the night with the Bushes on the eve of the Gulf War. Richard Nixon offered him the ambassadorship to Israel at a meeting with Golda Meir. "I said the Mideast would blow up if I went over there," Graham recalls. "Golda then reached under the table and squeezed my hand...
...Secret Negotiations to Lift Iraqi Sanctions...
...created some wondrously pretentious, infectious numbers for Bonnie Tyler (Total Eclipse of the Heart) and the film Streets of Fire. If the Druids had needed jingles for their oak-grove revelries, Steinman would have been the man to write them. But his songs needed Meat Loaf's urgency to lift their rude majesty to Ouch over High C. So the old colleagues reunited for Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell . . . It earned the obligatory pan from Rolling Stone ("low-octane operatic drivel") and seemed as likely to hit the Top 40 as the piano stylings of Richard Klayderman...
...work of artists assuming a character, other times bragging that their bad-boy credentials are for real. Both things can be true. Caught up in the echo chamber of pop culture, rappers can hear their own songs egging them on to their old mayhem, even as their record sales lift them out of the ghetto...
While Harvard is out of title contention, it hasn't lost to Penn at home since 1972. Penn also has pressure to stay on top, while the Crimson will have the emotional lift of trying to end Restic's home career with a triumph...