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...streets of Paris rang with victory celebrations? Now as the results of last week's parliamentary vote flickered across the TV screen, the numbers confirmed what all had suspected: the Socialist era was over in France. Mitterrand's party had been swamped by a right-wing tidal wave that swept up 460 of the 577 National Assembly seats and confronted the lame-duck President with the most lopsided conservative majority since the monarchy was restored...
...When Net [Rudenstine] was inaugurated, he went to a lot of trouble, and Angelica [Rudenstine] too, to create several wonderful occasions for the arts. They had some special are exhibits an evening of literature and music, this wonderful poetry and music event in a church...and I was just swept away by this..I proposed shortly thereafter to the Overseers that we create a Committee for the Arts. That was kind of my platform when I ran for the Overseers-that there be somebody from the Harvard alumni who was in the world of the arts...
...pros developed superstars Bird, Johnson, Julius Erving and Michael Jordan, with their mind-boggling athleticism and their equally stunning earnings ($35 million for Jordan this year). A renewed spirit and loyalty swept college basketball as television began to hype March. And down below, in the great dribbling masses, the kids with basketballs tucked in bed with them watched and watched and practiced and practiced and waited. Thus a culture was created...
...doubleheader on the 25th and wound up splitting the two games, pounding the Elis in the second. However, the next day the Crimson ran into an inspired Columbia team. The Lions, the cellar-dwellers last year in baseball as well as in football, started their top two pitchers and swept the Crimson, thereby ending all hope of a league title for Harvard...
When the Berlin Wall came down and the Soviet Union deconstructed and freedom swept across the old communist bloc, American foreign policy analyst Francis Fukuyama offered a much discussed thesis about what he called "the end of history," wherein, with communism gone, the world's civilization would settle upon a kind of sun-splashed plateau of democratic pluralism and free- market rationalism. One of the worst dangers in the post-Fukuyama world might be boredom, a fitful cultural unease...