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Annie Leibovitz likes to shoot to music. So when the photographer began setting up in the Oval Office for a Vanity Fair portrait of the new President just after his swearing-in, she pulled out her boom box and plugged it into an outlet not far from the portrait of George Washington. Instantly a stern White House functionary informed her, "We've never had music in the Oval Office." Only the President, it was decided, could approve such a breach in decorum. "Sure," said Clinton, and Eric Clapton's album Unplugged began to fill the room. A Secret Service agent...
...some say music is their way of escaping the stress of academic life here. "It is definitely a release," Thompson says. "Singing for me is the biggest outlet...
...Each time a cafe closes, a little bit of liberty and democracy disappears," says Henry, a 71-year-old who was suckled in his parents' Val-d'Oise cafe, north of Paris. From his bistro, Le Petit Poucet, Henry sees people pouring into Le Quick, a nearby fast-food outlet. "Their food is cheaper than ours," he admits. "But we have a role in society: to listen to people, to lift their spirits, to provide a place where all social classes mix and converse...
...more I see of Harvard students, the more I become convinced that they need another outlet for tensions, besides hockey games...
Peter S. Park '94, co-president of the KSA,says he wants the group to be "an outlet or aresource for other Koreans to meet friends...