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Finally, you unfairly describe our attempts at securing a concert as "a string of rejections from concert performers who probably couldn't fill a Harvard arena anyway...
...string of rejections" that you cite is merely an indication of our caution and care in negotiating a concert this spring. We could take the first group that becomes available and pay them whatever they ask for (not an unprecedented occurence in council history), but we are trying to act more responsibly with students' term bill fees this year...
...effectively dealt with the ROTC issue and gained valuable learning experience in planning big-name concerts. In fact, the council's resolutions on the future of ROTC were moot because this year's council cannot bind future councils to its decisions. And their concert "learning experience" consists of a string of rejections from concert performers who probably couldn't fill a Harvard arena anyway...
Barry's latest scrape could be the last straw for Washington voters, whose loyalty has been sorely tested by a string of embarrassing episodes. At least twelve of his top aides have been convicted of corruption. Allegations of cocaine use began to dog Barry after he made a 1981 visit to a topless club. He claimed he was soliciting campaign contributions. Then came the rendezvous with Lewis, who subsequently pleaded guilty to drug-conspiracy charges and was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Lewis claimed Barry smoked crack with him, which Barry denied...
Bolcom cheerfully quotes a colleague as saying that he is the only serious composer who drives a Cadillac. But he has worked hard for his popularity, and he still does. His tenth string quartet premiered last year, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax will tour four cities with his cello-and-piano sonata in May. Casino Paradise (an opera about a gangster "that's more or less like a musical") premieres in Philadelphia in April. Other coming works: a "baby opera" about Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte; a song cycle of poems by American women for Marilyn Horne...