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...voice that has not been properly heard either in the noise of the council's "circus" or The Crimson's coverage of this farce is that of the student body which voted overwhelmingly for the Driskell/Burton ticket. Unlike The Crimson's editorial staff, I am sure that if presented with the "facts" and not The Crimson's "semantic manipulations" the student body would reiterate its support of Burton as vice president of the council...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/22/2000 | See Source »

...content is king in the new world of global media, the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is no minor princeling. His The Phantom of the Opera has played in London's West End for 13 years and grossed an astounding $3.1 billion worldwide in ticket sales, to say nothing of CDs and sweatshirts. From his pen have also flowed Cats, Jesus Christ Superstar and Starlight Express. And Evita, with a little help from Madonna, grossed $146 million as a movie after racking up millions as a play. Like many an aristocrat before him, Lord Lloyd Webber (he was made a baron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All of London's His Stage | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

Last year Bush pushed for a controversial program to end social promotion, the practice of passing students who aren't academically qualified. His initiative would have required third-graders to pass a single standardized reading test in order to earn a ticket to fourth grade. That bothered Sadler, whose support Bush needed. At a meeting last year, Bush challenged him: "Sadler, you gonna pass my social-promotion bill?" Sadler replied, "Nah, I don't like it." "What's the problem?" Bush asked. Sadler told him that holding back students because they failed a single test wasn't fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Bush and McCain: Who Is The Real Reformer? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Mohammed Khatami's upset election with a nearly 70% vote three years ago, Iran has been on a pretty wild ride. It may be about to get a bit wilder if the little brother gets his way. Reza, 40, 16 years younger than the President, is leading the reform ticket in this week's elections, and by most accounts the reformers are set to take control of the assembly from Islamic conservatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vote In Iran | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...Crimson Arts is your ticket to arts and entertainment at Harvard and beyond. We'll hit Man of the Year and the new Pudding Show, "The Jewel of Denial" this week and have a full report for you next Friday--and look for the Spring Theater Preview and special surprise interviews in coming issues...Trying to figure out just how Harvard theater works, I signed on to help out a student writer whose play is going up in May. Pop-culture boy stranded on the island that is Harvard theater? All I can say is that the entire process...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, | Title: Soman's in the [K]NOW | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

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