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...carrying some heavily Hispanic and blue-collar precincts by as much as 9 to 1. More important, he deftly built a broad coalition, largely of political outsiders, that included Asians, blacks, young white professionals, women, environmentalists and labor groups. Although earnest and nearly humorless, Peña showed a warmth and directness that excited crowds. He also took strong stands on issues ranging from an antidiscrimination law for gays to a promise to try to bring major league baseball to Denver...
...earnest, and Torgerson was a popular veteran, married to another member of the Central America press corps, Lynda Schuster of the Wall Street Journal. Torgerson, a North Carolina native, had been a newsman since his teens; his foreign assignments included Nairobi and Jerusalem. Renowned for quick wit and warmth, he was unflappable; when a plane he was aboard had a harrowing landing last year, Torgerson buried any fears he may have had in a hearty laugh. Cross, a Kansan who worked in Central America for years under the pseudonym R. Cruz, was a loner, but passionate about his work: once...
Wherever Candidate Glenn dropped out of the sky, in his home state or in Maine, where residents in one town hosed down their housefronts in preparation for his arrival, he was greeted with extraordinary warmth. It mattered little that the applause was always louder when he arrived than when he departed. After his speeches, voters lined up for autographs and snapshots. Like another hero and presidential candidate, Dwight Eisenhower, with whom he is frequently compared, Glenn's folk stature gives him tremendous believability with his audiences. Still, the crowds studied him carefully, trying to judge his competence. Is this...
...Time is Tharp's most romantic piece. She sees what choreographers usually see in Baryshnikov: a performer who extends the boundaries of male virtuosity, in that sense the most modern of ballet dancers. But in the clarity and fastidious detail of his technique, as well as his warmth and amplitude, Baryshnikov evokes nostalgia-for the perfumed legends of Nijinsky and the Diaghilev troupe that first ignited the passion for ballet in the West. It is no small feat to capture this double image in a twelve-minute work, but Tharp has done...
...more to help Harvard's race relations than so hurt them. Ms. Ross, a gracious, intelligent international star, heard some 60 students at a South House luncheon individually express their fondness for her and explain the significance of her music to their lives. She expressed reciprocal fondness for the warmth of the Harvard admirers and deep appreciation for the Harvard Foundation's recognition. Mr. Leonard, the second prize fighter to visit Harvard in the last decade, was equally gracious and appealing (the Class of 1975 invited Muhammad Ali as its Class Day speaker...