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...matinee last week, two matronly charter subscribers to Tony Randall's National Actors Theater sat debating how much longer they could be patient as the company evolves from the third-rate productions of its first season to the mostly second-rate ones now. The women never expected anything quite as glorious as the marketing ballyhoo: America's best actors performing the world's greatest plays. But as one said, "We're guinea pigs." Although they grumblingly concluded they would renew, their conversation reflected the low stature N.A.T. has attained, save for an intelligent, innovative The Seagull. This "national" troupe...
...temporary change in the Massachusetts state charter replaced the Chelsea school committee with a nine-member B.U. management team comprised of faculty members of the schools of education, liberal arts, and public health. The team meets monthly to make policy decisions...
...Grace Okeyo, scoured Nairobi for bottled water and U.S. currency (a commodity in increasingly short supply), Nairobi reporter Clive Mutiso pulled every string he knew to get TIME space on planes denied to other journalists. When former Nairobi bureau chief James Wilde flew in from Istanbul, Mutiso persuaded a charter pilot bound for Mogadishu to add one more passenger, even though there were no more seats on his airplane. In the end, says Mutiso, Wilde was stowed "like a big parcel" behind the pilot, and off they went...
...logical and necessary next stage is for the U.N. to step in and run Somalia until there is once again a functioning government. There is a name for such an administration: trusteeship. There is authority for it under the U.N. charter as well as a mechanism within the bureaucracy called the Trusteeship Council. In Cambodia, the U.N. is already overseeing the government in Phnom Penh while it tries to disarm the warring factions and prepare the ground for elections next year...
Clarkson said in an interviews yesterday thatthe policy to hire only teachers who areChristians is not part of the school's charter orbylaws, but rather an assumed requirement foremployment...