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Residents have included composer Aaron Copland, Princess Grace of Monaco, author James A. Michener, former secretary of defense Robert McNamara and newscasters Dan Rather and Walter Cronkhite...
...welcomed us (us!) into the community of educated men (men!); we never doubted (yes, we were children) that our university was good. We did not know that soon we would doubt it; that we would recoil in horror from what we came to see as Harvard's complicity--Robert McNamara, Samuel Huntington, Henry Kissinger '50--in what we came to see as an immoral war. Remember...
Creators and writers David Greenwalt and John McNamara have done their best to imbue the show with a mythic ethos. The drama takes place in a gray, unnamed city (it's shot in Vancouver). Profit, a junior vice president, blackmails, murders and manipulates to remove obstacles and enemies, but his ultimate goal is unclear. While his urge to control is maniacal, he appears to want powers even grander than a mere title like CEO could bestow. The operations of Gracen & Gracen, "a family company," are shrouded in mystery. They simply "acquire"--businesses, information and, of course, souls...
...smaller roles are all well-played: of special note is Seph McNamara's Horatio, stalwart and strong, and Kirk Hanson's Guildenstern, a truly insufferable twit...
...taking it] mostly just because of a very sick interest in the subject matter," McNamara confesses...