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...regard themselves as temporary and insignificant members of an immortal institution, they assume that this generation has no business reviewing or revising the way Harvard operates. The protectors instead turned the Yard into a museum, for all to admire but for none to touch. Students, considered in the Rosovsky scenario as the most fleeting and least vital operatives at Harvard, had another little celebration later in the fall and most did not even attend the September party. A small group made an unexpected, cameo appearance at a 350th dinner for 600 prominent alumni, where they blockaded and forced the cancellation...
...group to do so. And even though the 50 represented a tiny fraction of the hundreds of thousands of people who have left Russia in the last two decades, the existence of even a small number of people wanting to return seemed a slap in the face. The whole scenario strained credibility: How could anyone voluntarily give up American freedom for Soviet totalitarianism...
...first time in the short history of the labyrinthine White House scandal, a plausible version of events was taking shape, based on sworn testimony and Administration documents. According to the latest scenario, the Administration's weapons deals with Iran were a straightforward arms-for- hostages swap. Reagan's repeated claim that the transactions were an overture to moderate factions in the Iranian government was no more than a rationale concocted by CIA Director William Casey. Lieut. Colonel Oliver North was instrumental in persuading the President to proceed; North's boss, former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, was aware that Iran...
...intelligence officer at the CIA, told Deputy CIA Director Robert Gates he suspected a diversion of Iran arms profits to the contras. Six days later they discussed the matter with Casey. On Oct. 9, Casey and Gates confronted North. The NSC aide denied there was any contra connection. This scenario contradicts Casey's claim that he did not learn of money being diverted to the rebels until just before Attorney General Edwin Meese announced it to the public on Nov. 25. Last week the CIA released a statement reiterating the director's earlier contention that he was informed only...
...effect is a powerful display of theater's seductive capacity to disparage illusion one moment, then compellingly restore it the next. Still, many Cambridge viewers remain baffled. They appear not to grasp that most of the scenario is Pirandello's rather than Brustein's and that despite the title, most is scripted rather than improvised. By Brustein's standards, the show is a success: it arouses rather than coddles audiences, forcing them to ponder the nature of theater -- not least the potential for being manipulated while happily submerged in a story. Says Brustein: "Audiences are responding correctly: they are being...