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...three weeks ago, the Gore campaign discovered that Bush had whittled its lead in West Virginia to only 3 points - and worse, that Democrats were defecting in droves. The surge came as a shock even to Bush aides, who made a last-minute decision to dispatch Bush to West Virginia on the day before the first debate. Hoping to reverse the trend, Gore responded last week with an ad blasting Bush on the minimum wage, and the unions are kicking into gear on the ground: the United Mine Workers are considering an Election Eve blizzard of 10,000 phone calls...
...maybe it would come from a movie. At one point in the mid-'70s I went with some friends to see "Mean Streets." After the shock of "Taxi Driver" - which I saw maybe 20 times, leading to my move to NYC - I was looking for anything else by this guy Scorsese. Sitting there in the dark as the typewritten credits flashed on the screen, there was this SOUND. The main title for "Mean Streets" was, of course, "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes, which I had somehow slept through on its first appearance...
...hurry home but I can't get back to Newberry?s till late that afternoon. I am so sure no one else loves this music as much as me that maybe I didn't hustle like I should. In any case, "Rare Masters 2" is gone. I'm in shock, I walk out of Newberry's like a man with a bloody forehead walking away from a car crash...
Members of the Harvard community reacted with shock and sadness at yesterday's downward turn of events...
...couldn't have anticipated the shock of this," said Bernard Steinberg, executive director of Harvard Hillel. "We're looking internally, trying to educate ourselves and sort out the conflicting data we are getting. We don't want to react without thinking...