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...many universities are, and has never considered it normal, or even likely, that a newly hired assistant professor would be promoted to tenure in due course. It does sometimes happen here, and I wish it could have happened for Masten, but as I observed to your reporter it is seldom easy to make an irrefutable case for promoting a young scholar at the outset of his or her career when it might have been possible to choose instead an older scholar of the highest distinction and bring that person to Harvard...
Well, let's try. His shows, to be sure, seldom rise above pleasant kitsch. Jekyll & Hyde is a sluggish retelling of the famous horror tale with hair-flinging histrionics by star Robert Cuccioli; The Scarlet Pimpernel is so cheesily staged that the hero's main feat of derring-do is to pose as a plague victim so all the villains will flee in fear. Yet Wildhorn's music has enough muscle and melody to lift the material and the spirits. He can get our blood flowing with a rousing fight song (Into the Fire in Pimpernel) or brighten a brittle...
...Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier, Jennifer Gelfand and Robert Wallace were both excellent. Gelfand's solid technique, effortless jumps and unmatched turns made her variation a joy to watch, reaching a high point when she completed four and five rotations after her fouette turns--a feat seldom seen on stage. Wallace was a refined and dignified Cavalier, well matched to Gelfand in technique and artistry...
...organization itself has operated with a high level of secrecy, if not mystery, that has inflamed critics. The IMF seldom discloses the details of its agreements with borrower countries. And IMF officials, in their public statements, speak in a language that seems purposefully oblique, out of a professed fear of rattling the financial markets. But lately the agency has tried to become more transparent in its actions. In the recent Thai bailout, under IMF pressure the Thai's took the unusual step of releasing a detailed, multipage summary of the loan agreement...
...however, the Clinton Administration, seeking to counter Republican charges of lack of leadership on the drug issue, is looking for a way to move against the clubs. Federal sources tell TIME that the Administration may try to shut down some high-volume cannabis clubs under the seldom-invoked civil provisions of the federal Controlled Substances Act, which allows the Justice Department to ask a federal judge to halt a drug-distribution operation. The advantages of this approach are that the case is decided by a judge, not a jury, and the government need not prove the club's proprietors acted...