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...usually the people more in the middle who do okay, who fluorish and grow. Sooner or later, Paul Siemens will go through an experience at Harvard in which he will not be No. 1 and someone else will be. If he can't handle that concept, he'll be crushed, part of the flotsam and jetsam floating aimlessly around campus snarling at all they meet...
...attempt to top one of the biggest entertainment coups the music world has seen in decades. Four years ago, on the eve of the World Cup final in Rome, the same three tenors came together for the first time to give a songfest in the Baths of Caracalla. The concept was already grandiose, but its success outstripped the wildest expectations of those involved. About 800 million people worldwide saw the television broadcasts. The record turned into by far the best-selling classical album of all time (total sales: around 10 million, and still going strong); only a dozen...
...Clinton plan adopted the concept of regional health alliances, through which all companies with 5,000 or fewer employees are required to buy - insurance. The Clinton alliances would be given additional quality-control and regulatory powers. The Senate Labor and House Education and Labor bills follow the Clinton model, but their alliances are voluntary and without regulatory authority. Dole's bill neither mandates nor prohibits alliances but allows self-employed individuals and small employers to purchase the Federal Employees Health Benefit plan. The House Ways and Means and House Education and Labor bills would broaden the existing Medicare system into...
...magnificent Hawaiian War Chant, which climaxes with a wail of electric-guitar dissonance that predates Jimi Hendrix by 20 years. A quirkier collection -- Spiked!, on Catalyst -- has some prime oddities, notably a suave, six-part ribbing of The Nutcracker Suite (1945), which must count as one of the earliest "concept albums...
...truce in the two-month-old civil war in Rwanda. The rebels continued to tighten their stranglehold on the capital of Kigali and pushed their assault on Gitarama, where the government has relocated. Meanwhile, the Vatican appealed to the U.N. Security Council to establish a "safe area" -- the same concept tried with so little success in Bosnia -- around a large religious complex offering sanctuary to 38,000 Tutsis...