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When the guttural words begin to emerge, Daniels, 50, passes around a paper with lines from the poem on one side and the modern English translation on the other. Since there is just one sheet, only a few students see it before the recording ends. An overhead projector would have helped, but the one assigned to the English department is as unreliable as the tape recorder...
...French press disclosed a sheet of printed instructions for a campaign of harassment against the film that included the use of tear gas. According to the weekend Journal du Dimanche, the instructions gave a Paris phone number belonging to the Centre Charlier, a fundamentalist Roman Catholic organization founded by Bernard Anthony, a National Front deputy in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Anthony denied any connection to the attacks. But at week's end police were still investigating members of the Centre Charlier for possible involvement in l'affaire Temptation...
...local fire chief sent two fire trucks roaring about in search of the outer-space cadets. The program, which had been announced well in advance, was intended as homage to Orson Welles. The actor, who had called his Mercury Theatre production a way of dressing up in a sheet and saying boo, would have enjoyed it hugely...
...Dees nevertheless insisted he believes "the Klan has a right to exist," if not to harass. Adds Dees: "This is not just an attempt to put the Klan out of business." Maybe not, but at this pace, he is not going to leave them with the price of a sheet...
...chiefs everywhere. After all, if RJR Nabisco, the 19th largest U.S. corporation (1987 revenues: $16 billion), can be taken over by the new breed of dealmakers, is any company safe? Is Du Pont doable? Can General Electric be hot-wired? Worse, must every chief executive view a healthy balance sheet as his worst enemy, a potentially rich source of leverage for a pushy buyer? Concludes James Scott, professor of finance at Columbia Business School: "There is no magic number anymore. There is no safety in size...