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...television fiasco has triggered deep schisms within the Christian Science Church over the use and accountability of church funds. Thus far, officials have borrowed $41.5 million from the institution's pension fund to cover operating losses. The three top officials of Monitor Television, including chairman and chief executive officer John Hoagland Jr., have resigned. Some influential church members are pressing Christian Science leaders for a full accounting of church spending on the television project. The move to television was controversial within the church from the first. Many officials were critical because it drained funds from the highly respected church newspaper...
There's nothing wrong with star casting when the role fits, as it does with Baldwin and Alda and Hirsch. When a show really goes wrong, performers are rarely the problem, anyway. Last week's biggest Broadway fiasco was a ponderously staged pedantic pageant from stage luminaries -- writer John Guare, actors Stockard Channing and James Naughton and director Sir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Like all Guare's plays, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun deals with ordinary people's inability to accept ordinariness, their yearning for mythic and epic significance. But it thwarts itself by hanging...
...year later, I can assess the results: No one involved in the Last Minute Housing Fiasco hates me, although some think I'm wishy-washy. I didn't fail International Conflicts. Basically, everything turned out fine...
...problems he's ignored for the past four years) are hurting and angry. The president's response has been pathetic. First he denied the problem, then offered too little, too late in his overlyhyped State of the Union address. His jobs, jobs, jobs" trip to Japan was a political fiasco that accomplished nothing. He campaigned in New Hampshire with the fuzziest of messages and without attacking Buchanan's upstart, highly-ideological campaign...
Meanwhile, Skinner is not much better than Sununu was at improving the president's image. The Japan trip was a fiasco, and Skinner let budget director Richard G. Darman talk Bush into stalling on new economic proposals until last Tuesday, during the State of the Union address. The yearly snoozer of a speech was probably watched by lots of people. Some may have even paid attention. None will remember...