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...Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut put Clinton on notice that they want reforms as a way to win back the white male voters that Democrats need to have any chance of regaining majority status. But that would threaten the party's support among minorities and women and, worse, probably spark a challenge to the President in next year's election from Jesse Jackson, who talked cordially to Clinton about affirmative action last week but is still making the programs' protection his litmus test...
...team that was picked fifth in the preseason national rankings, Harvard (14-14-2 overall, 12-9-1 ECAC regular season) could never find that offensive spark, and that ultimately led to the team's elimination from the ECAC quarterfinals by RPI this past weekend...
...prime L&S tunes, directed at stock-car speed by Jerry Zaks and sold with foot-in-the-door showmanship by a cast of five guys and four gals. The evening serves as a celebration-of what L&S did and what Broadway, when it gets the spark, can still do. It is also an occasion for melancholy, for the team's songs had the distinctive voice and dramatic line of the best musical theater. Broadway blew it when, for decades, it neglected Leiber and Stoller and the songwriting generation they nurtured...
...work I did. How could I be? I wasn't there half the time, mentally or physically. All I cared about was coming offstage and finding out where the cocaine was. The first five years of my career weren't like that; you could see the innocence, the spark in my eyes...
Take your pick: each of them should spark heated matchups, and should you find yourself outside Massachusetts state lines (heaven for bid)...here's what to expect...