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...YORK: UNSCOM chief Richard Butler could be forgiven for feeling a little like Ken Starr: even though his investigation is not complete, it could still be buried in the shifting sands of politics. U.N. inspectors today finished searching Saddam Hussein?s disputed presidential sites, and came up empty-handed. ?They weren?t expecting to find anything; they were simply establishing their right to search those sites,? says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. ?Things are on track right now, although UNSCOM staff members privately expect further confrontation with Iraq some time down the road, because the Iraqis are still playing...
...expectations low for these early ?baseline? visits. Whether they will turn up anything in future trips remains to be seen. More important to Iraq is how many trips it will take before Baghdad is granted a clean bill of health. One crumb of comfort for the Iraqis: Richard Butler, the belligerent UNSCOM chief, is being rotated out as the inspections begin...
Oscar Wilde would have been pleased. British writer Joe Orton's satirical play What the Butler Saw continues the irreverent tradition set by that great literary master in ridiculing the social standards and judgmental morals imposed by society. This 1960s play also pays homage to the time in which it was written, concentrating on the hilarities of sex, death, religion and the police force. When Orton wrote this play, he was a quickly rising star in the British literary scene; by the time of his death, he was working on such prestigious projects as screenplays for "The Beatles". His plays...
...heard he was a misogynist," said Advocate editor Kirstin E. Butler '01. "I came expecting to hear a lot of gender poetry. I was impressed that his poems are more universal, they're life lessons for every person...
...Butler's impression probably came from another one of his books, Iron John, Bly said...