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Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers focused on the need for investment in education, for globalization of the benefits from the recent economic boom and for the expansion of the U.S. market in a speech last night at the ARCO Forum...
Summers is just one of several advisers to President Clinton who have visited or will visit the Cambridge area this semester. Presidential advisor David R. Gergen spoke at the ARCO Forum Monday, and Al Gore '69 will engage in a presidential debate at the University of Massachusetts at Boston...
...Gore's underwear remains a secret after his stint on MTV's (and TIME's) "Choose or Lose" 2000 Forum, in which an assemblage of 150 college-agers in Ann Arbor, Mich. (yes, that's a swing state), got to very slowly pepper the veep with whatever questions they'd gotten past the show's producers. Gore, strutting on the stage like a frontrunner, came through fine - well-spoken, well-read and reasonably cool. If there was no shining moment, there was also nothing in the performance to burst his current bubble...
Tuesday Al Gore came to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor for a youth forum with MTV and TIME. While the veep has taken to dressing down, he didn't totally go Joe College. Instead he looked like a dad who'd shown up early for Parent's Weekend, dressed in khakis, a green button down and tie-up shoes (but sans Palm Pilot...
...large, the kids were sharp and their questions were good, often putting a personal edge to queries. They were well-spoken and polite. And the MTV team did a crack job choreographing the whole act, focusing on getting smart, tight questions up to the veep and making the forum serious. But that reportedly was also a disappointment to some in the pressroom as well. An MTV staffer told the story of a local Michigan reporter who'd had the body of his story written, leaving open just his lead, which he thought would be a frivolous kiddy question...