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...three principal characters in the opera are Macbeth, Lady Macbeth-to whom you charmingly refer simply as "Lady"-and the witches. The women of the Met chorus dig into their demonic roles impressively. And Mimes, after taking four months off from opera last season to recover from a throat ailment, is singing more robustly than ever. But what about Madame Scotto as your Lady...
Dershowritz appeared in the public eye two years ago for his successful defense of two University students who were prosecuted for showing the movie Deep Throat in Quincy House...
Dean's case is entirely circumstantial. Its most telling point is that Haig was one of the very few who were in a position to know a fact that Deep Throat told Woodward in early November 1973: "One or more of the [White House] tapes contained deliberate erasures." Others in a position to know were Nixon, his secretary Rose Mary Woods and White House Aides Stephen Bull and the late J. Fred Buzhardt. Haig had access to all the other information that Deep Throat fed or confirmed to Woodward, Dean claims. According to Dean, Haig probably would have been...
...principal objection to Dean's theory, which others advanced as early as 1976, is the inherent implausibility of the ultradignified and instantly recognizable Haig skulking around Washington garages undetected at 2 a.m. All the President's Men contains descriptions of Deep Throat's psychology ("a man whose fight had been worn out. . . Deep Throat never tried to inflate his knowledge or show off his importance") that scarcely seem...
There are factual problems too. Deep Throat supposedly met Woodward on Oct. 9, 1972, a date when Haig was out of the country. In late February 1973, Deep Throat gave Woodward the names of two reporters whose telephones were tapped on White House orders, and added that the eavesdropping was done by an "out-of-channels vigilante squad." In fact, the tapping was done by the FBI, as Haig most certainly knew, since he had relayed the names to the FBI. Dean believes that either Woodward got the date of the October meeting wrong or it never occurred, and that...