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...failure in modern, NASDAQ times has no redeeming social value. In its place sit rows and rows of gleaming successes. Last week, on the same day that I saw Wonder Boys, I watched a different bunch of wonder boys (and women) strut their stuff on a TV special called Summit in Silicon Valley. ("Bunch" is wrong for the collective noun. "Grin?") I watched a grin of high-tech billionaires sunning themselves in national adoration, bright models of achievement for every double-breasted hopeful yearning for a Lexus. No one mentioned beautiful losers. The last shall be last...
...idea was that failure was something potentially good for you and for everyone, that rejection and loss were not only personally inuring but that losing was also a sign of high and admirable ambitions. To note how far the pendulum has swung, go see Wonder Boys and the Silicon Summit on the same...
...recent success of the Ivy Leaders Summit, a conference that brought together ten accomplished student leaders from each school, speaks to the potential of this organization. Furthermore, on April 8, the Ivy Council is organizing an Ivy Wide day of Community Outreach and Public Service. (HAR'D CORPS at Harvard). These, along with our core role of bringing about dialogue, certainly add considerable value to the council. In particular, Harvard's Census 2000 grew out of Ivy Council communication and promises to be the major project of the current administration...
...over Brussels sprouts more reasons for standing ovations. Last November, Moravec's electrifying Mood Swings premiered in New York City, and three more New York premieres follow this May--Tsontakis' Ghost Variations for piano, Martin's song cycle The Glass Hammer and Liebermann's Trumpet Concerto. Just out from Summit Records is The Symphonic Works of Daniel Asia: At the Far Edge, and Delos is releasing a live recording of the Liebermann Second this fall. "Of course there's a backlash from the Old Guard," Liebermann says, "but the tide is finally turning." About time...
...Driskell's program is not the only thing that has come out of the Ivy Council. The conference also led to the creation of another conference, the Ivy Leadership Summit, to which Harvard sent 10 students last weekend...