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Gordon and co-producer Adam S. Hickey '99, who is a Crimson editor, have said they wanted the show, which closed Saturday night, to do more than just entertain the audience. The American Repertory Theatre and the producers of the play agreed to pledge 50 percent of ticket sales from...
Hersh suggests that Kennedy deserves some of the blame for triggering the Cuban missile crisis because of his secret plotting against Castro, which the Cuban leader knew about, even if most Americans did not. "The overriding deceit--one that still distorts the history of those 13 days--was the absolute...
Hersh claims to present a "new history" of the Cuban missile crisis that contradicts previously accepted versions. But he offers almost nothing substantively new, other than an unsupported claim that Kennedy allowed himself to be deceived about Soviet intentions by a private, back-channel Kremlin source and hence delayed sending...
Additionally, the socially conservative and tax-cutting factions of the Republican party can rejoice at Tuesday's results. Whitman's uphill struggle to rally conservatives behind her pro-choice, pro-gay rights campaign may force future moderate Republican candidates to think twice before alienating that crucial bloc of support. Likewise...
The billionaires are coming to the rescue. First, media mogul Ted Turner announced last month that he would give the ailing United Nations a $1 billion shot in the arm over the next 10 years. Then last week, American financier George Soros shocked Moscow and the West with a pledge...