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Russian Prez Boris Yeltsin made his standup comedy debut during a press conference at the White House, mugging with his interpreter and causing even the stoic Veep Al Gore to crack up. But by all accounts, progress between the U.S. and Russia seems serious. Both agreed to speed up the timetable of dismantling warheads as required by START II agreement reached last year. Clinton also boosted his Russian aid pledge to $1 billion. Other notable deals: U.S. intelligence agencies will now help their counterparts in Russia in tracking down plutonium smugglers, and Clinton managed to convince the burly Russian leader...
Caduceus, a publication that will concentrate on medical and health issues, officially made its debut at registration. The idea for the magazine was born last semester, during the stress of reading period...
...televangelists and complaints about American imperialism, provided an alternative to the British sludge that was washing up on U.S. shores. The band received little early support from radio or MTV, but by touring college towns and playing small clubs it steadily built a base of loyal fans. Its 1983 debut album, Murmur, sold more than 500,000 copies. In contrast, R.E.M.'s 1992 album, Automatic for the People, sold more than 3 million copies, and one of that album's tracks, Everybody Hurts, earned the band four MTV Video Music Awards two weeks...
While Bucknell will definitely need to "get theirs" if they want to ruin coach Murphy's Harvard Stadium debut, the hype surrounding this game does not faze Maranzana...
...storybook debut. In 1988 the Metropolitan Opera needed a last-minute replacement for Kathleen Battle in L'Elisir d'Amore. It turned to an apprentice in its young-artists program named Dawn Upshaw. The audience cheered, and the critics raved about Upshaw's charm and freshness; she seemed set for a predictable rise in the soubrette roles of grand opera. But Upshaw had ideas of her own. A few years earlier, one of her voice teachers, Jan DeGaetani, had told her to "seek your own path." Upshaw took that advice. From Mozart to Stravinsky to show tunes, she sings...