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...middle of the 1980s. Mary E. Birnbaum ’07 directs William Congreve’s most famous play, going up in the Loeb Mainstage on April 27 and playing during Arts First weekend. But it won’t be your standard classical fare: using Reagan-era music, neon lights, and loads of paint, Birnbaum’s vision attempts to give an old story new life. A dark comedy, the story follows the rakish “Mr. Mirabell” (J. Jack Cutmore-Scott ’10) as he trys to balance love, lust...
...Footsteps of R.F.K.? The only people nostalgically looking for repeat performances by surrogates for Ronald Reagan and Robert Kennedy are political junkies and ideologues like Kristol [April 9]. People in the street are looking for something promised by both of these dead icons but delivered by neither: peace, prosperity and a better future for the next generation. Anyone who thinks that the President's most important job is giving inspirational speeches - the main talent shown by both of these icons and by both of Kristol's presumptive successors - is a damned fool. David P. Vernon, TUCSON, ARIZONA, U.S. Tense Times...
...escalating war of words between Washington and Moscow over U.S. plans to build missile-defense facilities in Eastern Europe has left U.S. officials wondering whether Russia is living in the last century. Sure, Moscow had reason to fear President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" program, which he made clear was part of a plan to bankrupt the then-Soviet Union by pouring billions into a missile shield that he vowed would render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." But that was so 20th century...
...work with the U.S. on missile defense, Obering said. "We have a combined interest in stopping this emerging missile threat," he said. "It's not the Russians that we're worried about - it's the Iranian missiles that we're worried about. There's thinking inside the Pentagon that Reagan's "Star Wars" plan so unnerved the Russians that they're still suffering from a Cold War hangover and ultimately might see the light and cooperate. But that's unlikely to happen so long as NATO encroaches further east toward the Russian frontier. Russians have always feared invasions from...
...Next week, the 2008 Republican contenders will hold - or endure - their first debate at the Reagan Library in California...