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...TWELFTH NIGHT by William Shakespeare...
...seems to be all but irresistible. That stratagem has worked time and again for producer Joseph Papp for the 33 summers that he has staged free shows in New York City's Central Park. Rarely if ever has it reaped him a richer harvest of celebrities than in the Twelfth Night that opened this week...
...close enough to see it, Rose's greed for numbers was softened by small generosities -- All-Star rings arranged for clubhouse men. Of course, there was his abiding love of baseball. Naturally, he can recount every tick in the seesawing sixth World Series game of 1975, won on a twelfth-inning homer by Boston's Carlton Fisk: 3-0, 3-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-6, 7-6. During and after it, Rose called that game the best he ever knew, the one he almost didn't mind losing. Only in the past few days could that possibly bring...
...intermediary between God and man. In Shi'ism's first centuries, this role of mediator was played by the Twelve Imams, who were thought to be the rightful successors to the Prophet Muhammad and who combined religious and secular authority. Most Shi'ites continue to believe that the Twelfth Imam, who disappeared in A.D. 940, will one day emerge from hiding to establish a purified Islamic state. Some Iranians hailed Khomeini as an Imam qualified to be the deputy for the Shi'ite messiah...
Nothing was wrong with it, of course, and it is back for sure in The Russia House. Scarcely a dozen pages into this novel, Le Carre's twelfth, a document of potentially enormous importance has been passed from East to West during an exhibit of audiocassette wares in Moscow. Three grubby notebooks full of highly technical drawings and mathematical notations also contain some eye- popping assertions: "The American strategists can sleep in peace. Their nightmares cannot be realised. The Soviet knight is dying inside his armour." If true, such statements and the accompanying evidence pointing out the military incompetence...