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...Above everything else," writes Alexander Haig, "a servant of the President owes his chief the truth." In his forthcoming book, Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy, to be published this month by Macmillan, the former Secretary of State serves up the truth, at least as he sees it, with the bark off. He describes an Executive Branch marked by guerrilla warfare and backbiting, and portrays himself as an "outsider" up against "an Administration of chums...
...Nation of Islam, issued an ultimatum to Jewish leaders last week. Referring to Jackson, who was appearing with him at a Chicago rally, Farrakhan declared: "If you harm this brother, I warn you in the name of Allah this will be the last one you harm. Leave this servant of God alone." Founded in 1930, the radical organization boasted a following of 500,000 in the 1960s but has dwindled to fewer than 100,000. Lately it has moderated its earlier antiwhite views...
...likes Don Giovanni, not even his dedicated servant Leporella. And the entire opera involves a number of characters who have an axe to grind with the infamous seducer, who nonchalantly displays his talents while the others hatch their plans. But in the end Don Giovanni meets his deserving demise, not from the living characters, but from the ghost of a man whom the protagonist killed in a fit of rage at the beginning of the story. It is not easy to play a character whom everyone hates and whose mysterious--subtly sexual--personality attracts women regardless of their social background...
Sophomore Jeffrey Korn is lively and hysterically funny as Zerlina's rather slow-witted betrothed, Masetto Along with junior Dominic A. A. Randolph, who plays Giovanni's faithful yet knowing servant Leporella. Korn provides the comic relief for the melodramatic intricacy of the opera. Randolph's Leporella never fails to entertain the audience, whether he is describing his master's terrible ways or whether he is cavorting about the stage, helping his master escape from the other characters. Randolph's stage presence is superb and he becomes the show's most endearing character, as he provides most of the opera...
...reconsider his go-ahead for the plan. French Presidents, like kings and emperors before them, frequently exercise their power on behalf of the greater glory of Paris (and thereby their own image). Mitterrand seems clearly determined to follow in the tradition, pyramid and all. Says Emile Biasini, the civil servant who headed Mitterrand's task force on the project: "People are shocked now because they are always shocked by something new. But in ten years they would be shocked if we decided to move it." -By Wolf VonEckardt...