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...answer that question once and for all, but it tightens the web of circumstantial evidence around the Kremlin. A Bulgarian embassy worker who defected to France in 1981 has told French intelligence officials that the KGB devised the plot to kill the Pope out of fear that the Polish-born prelate was part of a U.S.-inspired scheme to undermine the Polish government...
...these glimmers of a new sense of well-being have failed to polish the President's image. Only 46% of the nation's voters now consider Reagan a "leader you can trust." That is a decline from 57% in May of 1981, the highest rating in his presidency, and marks the lowest point he has reached. The percentage of people who have "doubts and reservations" about Reagan's leadership has increased from 49% in December to 52%. When voters are asked whether they have "a lot of confidence" in Reagan's ability to provide "real leadership...
Born to a German mother and a Polish father in Günzburg, West Germany, Petra Lehmann moved to Georgia in 1960 after her divorced mother married a U.S. colonel, John Kelly. Six years later Petra went to Washington's American University, where she majored in political science and took a crash course in grass-roots activism. On campus, Kelly distinguished herself as an enterprising and indefatigable charmer: after being bombarded by her letters, Robert Kennedy advised her about scholarships, Hubert Humphrey had a lengthy correspondence with her, and Pope Paul VI reserved five seats...
Staging a restoration tragedy--hardly a tried and true form of drama--is an ambitious and commendable task, and more polish and consistency might have helped bridge the gap between eras. Just as the director should have paid more attention to consistency of dress, he should have fixed more clearly in his mind whether to attack the play as a comedy or a tragedy. As it is, the laughter which the ribald jokes and musical accompaniment seek to draw from the audience only rankles in the play's final bloodbath...
Music director Stuart Malina '84 has brought to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro a highly professional polish the tradeoff, as usual being some loss of student and House flavor. Three of the five main voices are Boston-area professional musicians; they carry the main musical burden for more than three hours. But in no sense do they overshadow the two undergraduate leads. Sebastian Knowles as Figaro and Nan Hughes as the lovesick pageboy Cherubino. Indeed these two make it obvious that casting professionals is not the only way to go. The valiant, largely student orchestra conducted by Malina...