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McKellen, giving perhaps the best performance of his career, is Mr. Puff, a hyperkinetic and vaguely Celtic specialist in panegyric, which is to say, a forerunner of the modern public relations man. From touting others, he has turned to writing his own epic tragedy, The Spanish Armada. At a rehearsal, everything goes wrong. The actors drop whole swatches of dialogue as turgid and unplayable. The bit players upstage the leads, who swat them. A sword fight is a model of slapstick ineptitude. A Minister of State (Petherbridge) comes out, stares at the audience long and balefully, and departs...
...merger specialist, Levine was privy to valuable information week in and week out. Curiously, in 35 of the 54 insider-trading cases cited in the SEC charges, the investment bank that Levine worked for was not involved with the merger bid. The implication is that he may have been exchanging information with other investment bankers or stock traders...
Gale, with two UCLA colleagues, Paul Terasaki and Dr. Richard Champlin, and Israeli Specialist Yair Reisner, worked with Soviet doctors under what he called "battlefield" conditions. In all, 299 people, most of them fire fighters and plantworkers, were hospitalized after exposure to estimated levels of radiation that ranged from 100 rads to more than 800 rads. In normal circumstances a person is exposed to about one-tenth of a rad per year. "Those in the lower-dose range will have modest and reversible damage," Gale says. Many of the 299 fell into this category. But 35 patients were exposed...
...specialist in reproductive physiology and a Middle Eastern ethnicity scholar have been appointed as senior tutors at Kirkland House and North House, respectively...
...hilltop some two miles from the high school where she taught. At Arlington National Cemetery, Navy Commander Mike Smith, Challenger's pilot, was buried with military honors on Saturday. Mission Commander Dick Scobee, a former Air Force officer, will also be interred there. The wife of Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis asked that his remains be cremated so his ashes could be scattered into the Pacific near his home in Hermosa Beach, Calif. A military service will be held at the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii for Mission Specialist Ellison Onizuka. Mission Specialist Ronald McNair will be interred...