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...constituency ? a rabid band of anti-abortion, pro-prayer protectionists who are fightin' mad over the Republicans' slow-but-insistent move back to the center under George W. Bush. With a Reform party nod, Buchanan gets a brand-new pan-partisan forum for his populism ? in his third go-round, his act is wearing thin with GOP voters ? and a brand-new war chest. (Thanks to Perot's 9 percent showing in 1996, the Reform nominee is guaranteed $12.6 million in federal money, far more than Buchanan has been able to raise this year.) But what does the Reform party...
What prompted this fourth and latest go-round? "A decade is quite a lot in the life of a performer," he says. "On paper--at least in some editions--the works stay the same, but they have to be performed, and they always present new insights. My appreciation of Beethoven has grown, and grows every day." Cementing his decision to re-record them was the prospect of what he now calls an "ideal collaboration" with the Vienna Philharmonic and his friend Simon Rattle, who at 44 is one of the world's most invigorating conductors...
Talk about back to the future. Ma Bell wants to be your sole communications provider again, just 15 years after regulators broke up AT&T's telephone monopoly. A major difference this go-round is that there's no monopoly. Another difference is that we're talking about much more than your phone. The vision described above, of lower cost and simpler billing for a whole complex of telecommunication services, could become reality in only a year or two--after billions of dollars in hardware upgrades. AT&T's dynamic CEO, C. Michael Armstrong, who took over in November...
This is John Updike's third go-round with "the semi-obscure American author" Henry Bech. Bech at Bay (Knopf; 241 pages; $23) displays the same mordantly comic look at the literary life that enlivened Bech: A Book (1970) and Bech Is Back (1982). The five stories that make up this new installment of the saga show an older and grumpier Bech still worrying about his long bouts of writer's block and finding ways of getting away from his desk whenever he can. On a State Department-sponsored junket to communist Prague in the mid-1980s, Bech meets dissident...
...September; another group of talented young Faculty arrive here to teach; and another round of fundraising solicits astonishing sums from nostalgic alumni. Let me make my standing here clear: these astonishing sums pay the way for many of us, and I am very much implicated in this University's go-round of persons and things, as I expect to receive my third Harvard degree in June. My point here is this: very few people say "no" to Harvard. No one is going to withhold their check because a junior professor has to leave. Only if this situation began to change...