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Nathans, a former associate dean at Duke University, made the 16--hour drive from Durham to Cambridge with five cats, two dogs and her son in tow. In between setting up her office and meeting her staff, she has accidentally set off both the fire and burglar alarms at her Dunster Street residence...
...According to the book, Oswald was a former spy sacrificed by anti- Kennedy elements in the CIA to take the fall. Then Ruby, Giancana's "Dallas representative," dispatched Oswald. The CIA turns up in Mark Lane's Plausible Denial (Thunder's Mouth Press; 393 pages; $22.95), which claims Watergate burglar E. Howard Hunt played a key role in killing J.F.K., who intended to disband the spy agency...
...quarter-century would be time enough to harden even a priest to the visual brutality of a city so broken that its people, like many of its buildings, have buckled and collapsed. But each time he goes away, Doyle finds he must slip back in darkness, like a burglar in his own home. "I have to come back at nighttime and start gently with my bed and my office," he confesses. "You see, I can't ever get over the tragedy of this place...
...most impressive new British play, Hare's Murmuring Judges, starts as a panoramic survey of a criminal-justice system shamefully subverted by careerism and bureaucracy. Gradually the story focuses on a hapless petty burglar, imprisoned almost five years for a first offense. Hare, a left- winger, has a thumb on the scales: his inmate is penitent, as innocent of spirit as Candide. Moreover, the police are widely known to have tainted the evidence, but admitting that would inconvenience powerful people, so injustice prevails. Much of the dialogue is barely digested statistics; the silliest, mouthed by a reformist young black woman...
...robbery was committed in broad daylight by a burglar who walked in through the front door. Of SCOTLAND YARD, no less. Embarrassed officials in London acknowledged last week that a young woman with a history of mental illness had wandered into the Yard's headquarters and ascended to the seventh floor, where a set of riot gear, including helmet and body armor, caught her eye. She liked the rig so much that she wore it home. Her horrified relatives returned the stolen gear to the bobbies, who vowed to review security procedures...