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Harvard, like much of America before Pearl Harbor was somewhat complacent about the gathering clouds of war. But there was one figure at the University who defied the isolationists and the appeasers--Conant...
Finally, following Pearl Harbor, Harvard, along with the rest of America, decided...
...Hangin' On has been remixed as a dance CD single--but the remix is gimmicky and plodding. And the single for singer Chantay Savage's slinky, soul version of I Will Survive contains two clunky rap remixes. On the other hand, one of the strongest rock songs of late, Pearl Jam's commanding I Got Id, is available only on CD single. The story of the single isn't finished yet. It's a work in progress...
...same question reverberated after the Thursday sessions, which produced more eye-popping numbers. In 1962 a young John F. Kennedy Jr. was photographed toying with a pearl necklace around the neck of his smiling mother. Lynda and Stewart Resnick, owners of the Franklin Mint Museum, based in Philadelphia, bid $211,500 for what looks like the same triple-strand necklace of simulated (read fake) pearls, offered at $700 to $900. Says she: "I'm a child of the '60s, and the John Kennedy Camelot years were the last time a lot of us were really innocent. That's what this...
There are no holds barred in the war rhetoric. Microsoft founder Bill Gates likened Netscape's sudden success to the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. And Netscape president James Barksdale said his company was "in a heightened state of awareness...