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...discovered through biblical gematriot and textual interpretation. We skeptics, however, believe that all books are written ultimately by man. We have a simpler explanation: what men or women put into a book, other men or women can take out of a book--be it murky wordplays about the future ("assassin will assassinate"), Euclid's geometry, clues to Agatha Christie murders ("the butler did it") or a recipe book in any language ("add a pinch of salt"). BERNARD W. POWELL North Miami Beach...
...Kinshasa, armed soldiers broke up a crowd of about 1,000 opposition activists marching in defiant support of Etienne Tshisekedi, the former Prime Minister passed over by Kabila when he formed his new government last week. No injuries were reported, but some 50 who had been chanting "Kabila, assassin of Congo!" were detained after the army moved in. TIME's Marguerite Michaels notes that the relatively small turnout means Kabila still has plenty of support. "If Tshisekedi, who is thought to be popular in Kinshasa, can't muster more than 1,000," she says, "Kabila doesn't have...
Lincoln appears briefly in his theater seat in the balcony, but the subject of the play is the assassin, not the victim. Afterwards, the audience sees Booth curled up with a bottle of wine and an old blanket. His pain and confusion is almost pitiable, yet McNeely's performance was also chilling enough to make the audience feel guilty for sympathizing with an assassin. Juliene James '00 appears onstage with him as The Balladeer, a narrator of sorts who comments on and interacts with the characters, falling somewhere in between Jiminy Cricket and a Greek chorus. She cuts into Booth...
Each successive scene tells the story of another assassin in a similar way. The assassins' stories are fictitiously intertwined: Charles Guiteau, who eventually assassinated James Garfield; Leon Czolgosz, who killed William McKinley; Guiseppe Zangara, who attempted to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt; would-be Gerald Ford assassins Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme and Sara Jane Moore; Sam Byck, who plotted to kill Nixon; and John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan. The time gap separating each of the assassinations (or attempted assassinations) is given no heed: placing these disparate events side by side allows them to interact in a kind of fantastic sphere that...
...final assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, played subtly by Daniel Zaitchik '98, is given special prominence. As he stands in the Texas Book Depository Building on November 22, 1963, the cast of assassins appears as a kind of ghostly support group, each announcing his/her name and assassination in Alcoholics Anonymous-like fashion, explaining that Oswald must kill Kennedy, for their sakes. The conspiracy theory is given a new spin here, as Booth, the leader of the dead assassins, claims that the combined spirit of the assassins is "the real conspiracy." "In fifty years, they'll still be arguing about the grassy...