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What Silbey probably did not realize was that many of his conversations were being secretly recorded by Ralph Sharer, a freelance sleuth paid by Schiavone. Sharer, a former Government auditor, says he spied on Silbey and other staffers for more than two months in 1982. "I taped [Silbey] every time I talked to him," he claims. During that period, Sharer was working with the committee on two investigations unrelated to the Donovan case, a role that permitted him to act as a mole...
...Lang remains doubtful about chances for long-term acceptance for the "Yale solution" because, he says, the government can recover more money from the universities through the effort reporting and auditing process. Although he has never met a government auditor face to face, Lang remains unimpressed by the written answers to his mailings to HHS. "When they respond, they respond either by false statements or by fudging," he says. "The HHS auditors constitute a threat to science, to the independence of universities...
...theatrical effect and a poet of the darkest human emotions. Though his characters are haunted specters speaking in liturgical monotone, there is music in the monotones; there is passion in the music. His late plays are telepathic conversations of the nearly departed. In the mind of the adventurous auditor, they resound like campfire tales exchanged by the last creatures on earth...
...Broadway players were suitably daunted by the exacting precision of Blakemore's instructions and Frayn's stage directions (the script for the second act has two columns to describe the simultaneous goings-on of the two farces). Says Actress Deborah Rush, who plays a spaced-out tax auditor in Nothing On: 'They knew just how many breaths were required between the opening and closing of a door." Brian Murray, the beleaguered director of Nothing On, recalls that just before rehearsals began, "Michael Blakemore called us together and told us that in two weeks we'd wish...
James Cummings, director of the NRC'S Office of Inspector and Auditor since 1978, was transferred out of his job as the controversy grew. Cummings claims that the agency lost confidence in him after he forgot to turn over key documents. Says he: "I simply screwed up, and I've been going all around town saying mea culpas ever since...