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...They also serve who must stand and wait for stardom. Mitchell was a Broadway journeyman before his galvanic performance as Coalhouse Walker in Ragtime. Yet even that role didn't win him quite the renown he deserved (he lost the Tony to Cabaret's Alan Cumming). Now he's starring in the first Broadway revival of Cole Porter's sparkling 1948 musical based on The Taming of the Shrew. He gets to reintroduce such Porter hits as So in Love, is teamed once again with his Ragtime co-star Marin Mazzie--and doesn't get killed in the end. Sounds...
...making the traditionally slow-moving ballads sparkle with life, Ferrer suddenly became an unwanted relic of the island's precommunist past. The rustic sound he loved so much held dwindling relevance to the sleek, popular sounds of modern Cuba. So in the early 1990s, having never acquired any renown beyond Cuban shores, he quit music in frustration and turned to shining shoes for a living, which earned him more money anyway...
...recently Paris has also gained renown for something diametrically opposed to this aristocratic image--the resurgence of socialism in Western Europe. With the victory of Lionel Jospin in France's 1997 elections, the French socialists came back into power...
...great friends, the reason I sometimes think my life is a bit like the movies, is because Harvard is the best university in the country. Certainly, Harvard has its problems, some of which are quite serious. But on balance, the Harvard experience deserves at least 99 percent of its renown. We were all lured here by the Harvard reputation, which turned out--at least in my personal experience--to be underrated...
...many Harvard undergraduates who chose one of the largest concentrations at the University to study Congress, the courts and the other institutions of American politics, the renown of the Harvard Government Department may offer them little more than an empty promise...