Word: simons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry's (D-Mass.) "Victory '96 Concert" was about finished when 1970s rocker Carly Simon strode to the stage, nodded at Kerry and turned to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.), the state's senior senator...
...long, strange trip, with Simon's gaffe epitomizing the entire affair: The music was decent, but the musicians and their musical selections just didn't make much sense...
RICHARD DURBIN Democrat--Illinois The seven-term Representative easily triumphed over conservative Al Salvi to keep Paul Simon's seat in Democratic hands...
...youngest-ever chair of the Democratic National Committee, Wilhelm also served as the Iowa campaign manager for Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and 1984 campaign director for Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.). He has worked...
...Great Books (Simon & Schuster; 492 pages; $30), David Denby, film critic for New York magazine, recounts a personal odyssey. Some 30 years after taking the two core-curriculum courses--Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization--at Columbia University, he takes them again, traveling with students several decades younger the long road from Homer to Woolf and Socrates to Nietzsche. Denby finds the so-called--and currently much maligned--great books more exhilarating the second time around: "They scrape away the media haze of second-handedness." The overarching impression left by his account is that education may be wasted on the young...