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YOUR ARTICLE ILLUSTRATED A MAJOR problem in the way we select the American President. Many voters tend to concentrate on a single issue and choose for office a candidate who embodies that lone ideal. However, the President has many roles to play, and when a candidate is selected because he embraces a certain policy, he can disappoint the public on other, less prominent policies. Single-issue voters are often surprised by the direction things take after they vote a President into office, when they learn his entire agenda. JOSEPH ROTUNDA San Antonio, Texas Via E-mail...
...Saturday night at 6 p.m., Harvard will host the Cornell Big Red. The game represents a chance for the Crimson to avenge its lone Ivy League blemish of the season, a 70-69 thrilling loss to the Big Red in Ithaca on January...
THERE'S A WITTILY INCENDIARY scene in Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing in which a group of Hispanics and a lone black man spar with each other by turning up their radios to louder, increasingly confrontational volumes. The scene challenges the old cliche that music is the universal language. Often, in fact, it is an expression of what divides us--Shania Twain and Tupac Shakur don't share much of a crossover audience. It's therefore a delight to encounter two engaging, offbeat new rap groups, the Japanese-American duo Cibo Matto and the Haitian-American trio...
Tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. in Bright, Harvard will host Union. In early January, Harvard shut out the Skating Dutchmen 2-0. Since that game, Union (5-12-3, 2-8-2) has lost 4 of 5 with their lone victory a 10-0 trouncing of a lowly Air Force squad...
DIED. VIVIAN BLAINE, 74, actress; of congestive heart failure; in New York City. In the first years of the '50s, audiences were drawn to Broadway by the singing, dancing swirl of gamblers, cops and missionaries in Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls. But it was a lone blond in an empty nightclub who stopped the show, poignantly, comically complaining in song of her unmarried state. The five minutes of adenoidal lyricism known as Adelaide's Lament made Vivian Blaine a White Way legend, so linked to the character of the warmhearted show girl who spoke Runyonese that...