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Your Middle East peace efforts crumbled. Your health-care plan vanished with grunge rock. But now you can build on your most lasting legacy: obliterating the line between politics and entertainment. Last week you met with NBC to discuss hosting a daytime talk show to the reported tune of $50 million a year. Respectable commentators urged you to pass. Now even your own people are knocking down the idea. But don't listen to the naysayers...
...considerable skepticism over whether Arafat's battered security structure could actually enforce such a cease-fire even if he chose to call one. But the ongoing Israeli security operations and the potential for a violent split among Palestinians may limit Arafat's willingness to dance to Washington's tune...
...without instinctively looking at the silenced television. This is only partly because nothing decent airs on Fridays. At midnight I don't even rush to grab the remote. Not until 12:20 a.m. do I turn on the set. The colors are blinding, the fast cuts almost nauseating. I tune into E!'s Wild on the Adriatic, and everything seems nonsensical; I can't distinguish pixilated breasts from pixilated buttocks. I am a caveman...
...even farther from the Quad. Its hours are miserly, especially on weekends, and its grand pianos tend to be far less than grand. Although the Houses have practice facilities of their own, they often contain few rooms dedicated to keyboard practice, and their pianos are perpetually out of tune. Even the illustrious concert grand in the Eliot House tower—donated by Leonard Bernstein no less—needs serious reworking...
...arriving in Cambridge, no doubt partly because of the inconvenience of finding a halfway decent one. Before the University spends millions of dollars renovating the MAC, it should budget funds to upgrade its stodgy pianos, to buy some new ones and to keep those it already owns consistently in tune. If you have seen the mile-long list of a capella groups, it should be clear how desperate the plight of instrumental music at Harvard has become...