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Philip Kraus is suitable as Sebastian, the twin brother Viola believes lost at sea. As in the two previous AST productions, the confusion of the two siblings is made more credible by having Kraus act somewhat effeminately--both twins thus being androgynous. In Shakespeare's day the problem naturally did not arise, since both roles were played by young boys, actresses being forbidden by law until the Rest oration...
...driven out with whips," he says. One night, when the Department of Commerce and a couple or three Government agencies had failed to answer MacArthur's latest jeremiads - in which he likes to point out that there is, in fact, an Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Development Act on the books (and when are the feds going to do more than press release it, hmm?) - he tapped out a letter to Amy Carter. Since the adults were being so obtuse, why didn't Amy and her chums - the consciences of the future - stage an alternative-vehicle regatta...
...fact, the court sounded a note of judicial restraint in another affirmative-action decision last week, when it dealt with a suit brought by California contractors seeking to overturn a requirement of the federal Public Works Employment Act of 1977 that 10% of federal public works grants go to minority contractors. The court returned the case to Los Angeles District Judge A. Andrew Hauk -who had declared the minority contractor set-aside unconstitutional-but it made no ruling on the merits of the case. It suggested only that the California suit may be moot; since all federal contracts...
...director of the food and drug division of the Massachusetts department of public health: "There are millions of chemicals that people can abuse. If people want to run around poisoning themselves, there is very little regulating officials can do." Besides, officials argue, the drug's own adverse effects act as a deterrent to chronic abuse. Recalls one Manhattan user: "It was the most terrifying experience of my life. After I sniffed it, I felt my heart was popping out of my chest. I had a headache for a long while after. I'll never touch it again...
...student-proposed plan that would assign undergraduates to act as informal advisers for freshman is "very close" to gaining official University status, Henry C. Moses, dean of freshmen, said last week...