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...aware that there is a long march ahead. Says his close friend, Violinist Isaac Stern: "Slava knows that there are certain elements of the classic repertoire that he still has to grow into. He will not pretend that he can match the 30 or 40 years of experience of any master conductor...
...glasses. For the Bild Zeitung caper, he also shaved off his mustache, adopted the name of Hans Esser and passed a pre-employment writing test at the paper. Once hired, he had to turn out credibly trashy articles. He also had to socialize heavily with fellow reporters and pretend to share their views to prevent detection. His account of the experience, Der Aufmacher (The Banner Headline), accuses Bild of fabricating interviews, publishing phony photographs, aiding government intelligence agencies and slandering public figures who do not embrace the paper's editorial policy...
...students still in the closet at Harvard is particularly high. I attended a public university in Ontario for one year and many more of the gay people were out there. This may not be evidence to permit to draw any conclusions about Harvard, but I don't pretend to be scientific; I am being subjective. In any case, the number of students here who will stifle expression of their emotions and sexuality for a few years, or even a lifetime, is a cause for sadness and questioning. We must question in the hope of eventually making this world more accomodating...
...cars will be sitting still or rusting away. We'll have no gasoline. But to act now in terms of what is going to be the situation 20 years from now would require a kind of judiciousness, at least, which we simply do not have. We would much rather pretend that we can go on forever, just the way we are now. And that's the whole philosophy of a country where no one ever really dies. We ignore it. We're going to solve everything, do everything, live forever. It's not true. It's simply not true...
...evidence we have says those blessed scores don't say a damn thing about contribution or competence," Cahn said, adding that "to the extent that universities pretend or hide behind the facade of tests and numerical criteria, they regress in this question...