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...play, set originally in Small Town, Norway, involves primarily a philosophical battle, with a single social-reformist intellectual and eventually his society cast at opposing ends. The intellectual, Dr. Thomas Stockmann (Jim Caudle) unearths political corruption within the lifesblood financial enterprise of the town, and with the overwhelming support of the townspeople, confronts the local authorities. But the doctor's brother, Town Mayor Peter Stockmann (Michael Waxenberg), through questionable machinations, reverses the tide of public support, thereby casting the well-intentioned brother as "an enemy of the people...
When the Littauer School was still in blueprints, the Littauer Fellows were to be the lifesblood of the School. Plucked from the ranks of the more promising men of four or more years experience in public service, they received a free year of advanced education. Like the Niemen Fellows and the Advanced Management men at the Business School, they reversed the tradition of education first and experience second. They were to use their savvy to see through the excess theory of the courses they took, and train themselves for bigger government jobs...
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