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To Ronald Reagan, the occasion was a "homecoming." To others, it looked like an exploratory mission on the 1984 presidential campaign trail. Either way, the President was clearly in his political element last week, as he escaped the legislative infighting of Washington for a two-day foray into the Sunbelt...
For such a grand occasion, the financial commitment sought by Reagan seemed piddling. As he put it, "The total amount requested for aid to all of Central America in 1984 is about $600 million; that is less than one-tenth of what Americans will spend this year on coin-operated...
Investigators are unsure what happened to all the money that IGBE took in, but some of it seems to have paid for high living. Says Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Stephen Raabe: "The brothers would think nothing of paying $10,000 for a private Learjet to fly to the West Coast...
The occasion was an unusual production of Euripides' "The Bacchae," sponsored by the Harvard Classics Club and intended as a historically correct presentation of the ancient Greek tragedy.
The consummate example of Harvard sex intellectualized into gobbledy gook comes in a 1973 short story called "Innocence," by Harold Brodkey '51. As the story begins a Harvard senior named Wiley looks at the object of his lust and states, "To see her in sunlight was to see Marxism die...