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School Fight Songs: They've got "All Hail Northeastern." We've got "10,000 Men of Harvard". An anonymous Northeastern administration staff member labeled the Huskies song "stupid." She sang it to me, and I'd have to agree. So let's sing again, 10,000 men of Harvard gain victory today. Fight song, score for Harvard...
...rumors of supposed slights and rebuffs. Kim Basinger and Robert De Niro, who stumped for the campaign, did not initially receive invitations. Kathleen Turner phoned asking to come but did not have her calls returned. When Geena Davis first offered to perform, same story. Bette Midler was asked to sing but -- good heavens! -- was not invited to any parties. By far the most egregious insult was suffered by Paula Abdul. After losing a bid to perform at the Presidential Gala, Abdul was instead requested to appear at the Salute to Youth. Her response: That's not good enough...
...sorrow. Especially in sorrow. For these artists, love is a thing felt most deeply when it's lost. So their songs are mostly past tense: the awful stuff that happened to them, the brave face they can put on it. They must be survivors, because they sure can sing about what death feels like. They were there; they're still here...
...musical life and, in 1968, became a member of the Baha'i faith. Personally, Dizzy was on the square and strictly legit; he fronted the first jazz band ever sent on a subsidized tour by the State Department, referred to President Dwight Eisenhower as "Pops," got Jimmy Carter to sing Salt Peanuts at the White House and copped one of those fancy medals from the Kennedy Center. He even ran for the highest office a couple of times himself (sample campaign lyric: "Your politics oughta be a groovier thing/ So get a good President who's willing to swing"), announcing...
...also have a `Don't Be Cruel' medley. SinceClinton is such an Elvis fan, we might sing thatone," said Katia B. Guillory '94, music directorof the Pitches...