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Sachs and Soros remained on the podium for a few minutes after the program as the crowd swarmed around them to ask questions, shake hands, and, in Soros' case, get autographs...
...addition to tales of all-night writing and aides' squabbling over credit, Waldman spoke of President Clinton's "incredible range of oratorical knowledge" and "love for the podium." "We'd hand him a bare outline of points to make and policies to explain, and he'd 'pretty it up,' with detail and argument tailored to the mood of the audience. We'd give him Hemingway, and he'd turn it into Faulkner...
Facts are nothing without opinions. But this should not mean that opinions, molded and sufficiently hardened, should be allowed to substitute for facts. Nor should any serious democrat allow "character" to be transmitted ineffably from podium across the smog-ridden cities and cornfields of America and directly into the voting booths without so much as a piece of evidence to help...
...Whether he is publishing works of his colleagues or championing new works on the podium, Schuller is universally recognized as a selfless and tireless advocate of deserving music. Professor Rands is glowing in his praise: "[He is] completely without affectation, a man of his word; an indefatigable worker on behalf of music and musicians and a thorough professional from head to toe...He has dedicated his life to music and as such is an exemplary mentor and inspiration." Tom Haunton, principal french hornist with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and a former student of Schuller's at NEC, says...
...people and called for the release of Israeli hostages taken by Hezbollah. On these issues, I think that the two groups pretty much agree. HSI certainly hopes this is true and our president, Jonathan M. Gribetz '02, welcomed the presence of the SAS silent counter-protest from the podium because we believed that all people in the Yard could agree to the humanitarian message that was being presented...