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...issue of race in the impeachment trial flared briefly, but died just as quickly because it had little merit. Indeed, the entire saga of Burton-centered controversies will most likely fade into the student body's collective consciousness. The best scandals (Watergate, the Teapot Dome) succeed because they contain kernels of truth. With regard to the council's controversy, members of the body are still unsure whether or not Driskell and Burton actually overspent their campaign limit. This scandal was based on vague half-truths, at best...
...recent developments in the Driskell-Burton saga leave me both frustrated and dismayed (News, "Council to Vote Next Week on Burton," Feb. 7). The possible impeachment of Undergraduate Council Vice President John A. Burton '01 is by no means the source of this discontent. While I feel that he is in the wrong, hopefully by now we realize the general frivolity of the council and especially the small impact that the loss of one officer will have on the life of the College. The extremely troubling part is the instant reaction of some to bring in skin color and racism...
...Elian Gonzalez saga is a one-of-a-kind international showdown, but it's also part of a rising American debate over parents' rights. In Chicago birth parents are pitted against foster parents, and some blacks are charging the courts with racial insensitivity. In the U.S. Supreme Court this week, grandparents are squaring off against parents over the right to visit their grandchildren. Across the U.S., courts are being flooded with cases involving custody and visitation for homosexuals who have been estranged from the children they parented. At the heart of all these disputes is a wrenching legal and emotional...
...from ambitious commoner to dangerously monomaniacal ruler, he also lacks the necessary pathos to be anything more than a caricature. Zhang Fengyi fares better as the sympathetic Jing Ke, giving a much-needed boost of feeling to the last third of this more than two and a half hour saga. Indeed, as a seasoned killer who makes the conscious decision to renounce his murderous past, he shows what Ying Zheng has the potential to become: strong-willed yet benevolent, not guiltless yet not amoral...
Still, Act II is undeniably the stronger of the acts, for it showcases more vocal talent and retells a more unfamiliar story, the saga of Noah's son Japheth and his love for Yonah, a member of the race of Cain. The voices of Noah (Ryan Shrime '00), Mama Noah (Ashley McCants '02), Yonah (Jody Flader '02), and Japheth (Jason McNeely '00) fill the room admirably and beautifully complement each other...