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...anyone will ever need of their growth during those years as musicians, singers and composers. Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison began the way a million other children of early rock 'n' roll did: by singing rough copies of their idols' numbers into clumsy tape recorders in their parents' rec rooms. Six years and two crucial recruits (Ringo Starr and producer George Martin) later, voila--meet the Beatles...
Harvard H.A.N.D. Central Coordinator, Big Sib Coordinator, Big Sib; Harvard Rec. Figure Skating, Head Instructor; Junior Parents Weekend House Representative; Harvard Crimson. Staff Writer. Editor, Harvard Aerobics, Assistant Instructor...
...years, members of Harvard's first-year classes have trooped down to the Union basement after dinner for a dessert of pinball and pool. However, members of the Class of 1998 who ventured down stairs last week found the room shut down, with the rec area's electrical equipment, video games and soda machine all unplugged...
...superfluous appendage. The prepared comedy bits have occasionally been funny (a takeoff on Letterman's Small-Town News in which the "real" items were faked) but more often tacky (bogus interviews with celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, with moving mouths superimposed on photos of them). O'Brien has decorated his rec-room set with pictures of TV personalities like Ernie Kovacs and Jack Paar. Unfortunately, he comes across more as a preppie Mr. Rogers...
...wasn't quite your average fundraiser, though. This particular rec center sat in the midst of a sprawling low-income housing project. The audience--three-quarters Black, mostly residents of the project--cheered loudly, nodded and murmured as speeches unfolded. Later, many local residents stepped to the podium, pledging support and restating their confidence in the candidate...