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...panel, moderated by CNN anchor Judy Woodruff, featured Vigdis Finnbogadottir, former president of Iceland (1980-1986); Ruud Lubbers, former prime minister of the Netherlands (1982-1984); Kim Campbell, former prime minister of Canada (1993); Malcolm Fraser, former prime minister of Australia (1975-1983); Helmut Schmidt, former chancellor of West Germany (1975-1982); Hanna Suchoka, former prime minister of Poland (1993-1994); and Jennifer Smith, current premier of Bermuda...
...hard to overstate the impact of the global system he created. It's almost Gutenbergian. He took a powerful communications system that only the elite could use and turned it into a mass medium. "If this were a traditional science, Berners-Lee would win a Nobel Prize," Eric Schmidt, CEO of Novell, once told the New York Times. "What he's done is that significant...
...while America has rolled around in dance clubs and hip-hop has taken the political torch, folk music has somehow maintained a high energy, doubtless made possible by clubs like Passim. Siggins Schmidt explains that the club is "one of the best places an artist can cut his or her own teeth...can find an attentive audience. Its nurturing quality has proved itself decade after decade." And Club Passim does have an "alumni" list for the past few decades twice as impressive as Harvard's: Baez, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Muddy Waters, Taj Mahal, Shawn Colvin, Jackson Browne, Tracy Chapman...
...Siggins Schmidt described the anniversary concert as the ultimate introduction to folk music any Harvard undergraduate could hope for. Pamela Means began the show with a short set of soft-spoken, dark songs. Her hair, a square mass of dreads, sat on top of her head like an underground crown. After her, with far less hair, the Charles River Valley boys played a set that sounded more like the Ohio River Valley than the Charles, closing with a few Beatles covers that underlined the concert's sense of retrospective solidarity...
...Siggins Schmidt discusses a "vitality that doesn't seem to go away." With more folk festivals around the country now that five years before, Club Passim may be in position to facilitate another folk revival, but whatever the status of folk-Americana across the country, Club Passim seems content to go on, regardless...