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LONDON: That repressive muzzle known as the Official Secrets Act hasn't stopped Britons from finding out what allegations are being leveled against their own intelligence services. On Thursday The Guardian broke the injunction on reporting whistleblower David Shayler's claims that MI6 tried to blow up Libya's Colonel Ghaddafi. How? The Guardian simply reprinted Wednesday's New York Times article on the subject. That forced the Foreign Office to actually deny the story for the first time; an official told Reuters it was "inconceivable" that they would grant the authority for assassinations "in normal peacetime circumstances...
...allow a trial for the two Libyan suspects in the Netherlands -- and confirmed, as TIME Daily reported, that this was an attempt to "call Ghadafi's bluff." But it appears that State was caught off-guard by the timing of the original report in the English newspaper the Guardian, confirming it while officials in London were still sticking to the original script: Trial in Scotland or the U.S. only. For the first time since Lockerbie, the U.S. and Britain seemed out of step...
Tampering with Shakespeare is a venerable tradition, even by the world's most respected guardian of the canon. For the RSC's new version of Cymbeline, the Bard's little-performed romance, artistic director Adrian Noble has lopped off nearly a third of the play and seasoned it with Japanese costumes and mannerisms. If the production doesn't quite soar, it's probably because the plot remains one of Shakespeare's messiest, with everything from a headless corpse to a guest appearance by the god Jupiter. Matthew Warchus' sleek, modern-dress version of Hamlet toys with the play as well...
Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr's investigations go on and on [NATION, May 11]. There are few things more frightening than a self-righteous, self-important "guardian" of public morals and minds like Starr, a tin-pot Torquemada and spiritual heir to Himmler. JENNIFER JOHNSTON SMITH Houston...
...yesterday's long, slow walk to the finish line--which she reached at 6:52 p.m., completing the race in just under 31 hours--was not the first time Zoe Koplowitz had walked a 26.2-mile course with two custom-made canes and Guardian Angels as escorts...