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...very least, theatergoers get an inexpensive night out: food-and- entertainment packages range from $33 (Prom Queens) to $75 (Tony n' Tina's top). At best, as in Song of Singapore and Pageant, audiences are reminded of theater's power to create a world out of song and shadow -- to offer circus and stage, nightclub and Kiwanis Club, in one beguiling bundle...
...president of the Russian Federation, Yeltsin banished all party organizations from the workplace and from state institutions. His decree was aimed like an ax at the very roots of communist power: the dense tangle of party cells in factories and businesses that have functioned alongside state agencies as a shadow system of administration. This party bureaucracy has been a major brake on radical economic reforms...
...control is what you talk about when you have nothing to talk about. In the midst of the deepest cold war, the only thing we could possibly talk to the Soviets about was nuclear weapons: abstractions, tokens, numbers, weapons whose use was inconceivable. Arms control offered a kind of shadow substance when there was no real substance to discuss...
Fiers' disclosures may lead Walsh to seek perjury indictments against George and others. They have also cast a shadow over President Bush's nomination of Deputy National Security Adviser Robert M. Gates to become the CIA's director...
...head of the CIA, will his spy staff ever respect a guy who flunked Surveillance 101? When Gates was a young CIA trainee in the early 1960s, one of his early attempts to tail a suspect was notably unsuccessful, according to a former classmate. Gates was assigned to shadow a man in Richmond. But the local police became curious about the apprentice spy loitering on a street corner and hauled Gates in for questioning. Hours later, after a CIA instructor intervened, the spook-to-be was returned to quarters at Camp Peary. Gates then traded in his trenchcoat and eventually...