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Troilus (Nick Davis). Hector's younger brother and puppy-dog adulator, is distracted from the more sanguinary, duties of war by the lovely Cressida (Laurie Galluccio). vigil daughter of a Trojan defector. After much hemming and hawing, the two innocents manage to get together with a little help from Cressida's uncle Pandarus (Nick Lawrence) only to discover that a Greco-Trojan conference committee has decided that Cressida must be turned over to enemy camp in exchange for a Trojan prisoner-of-war. Thus, the play ends with Troilus and Cressida cursing the Gods on Mount Olympus, Pandarus cursing himself...
From the outset, the protesters have defeated their own cause through their choice of tactics. Repeatedly, the students have vowed to continue their vigil until Columbia's trustees promise to sell the University's $32.5 million invested in corporations doing business in South Africa. In the process, they have placed both the trustees and themselves in a paradoxical predicament, even if Columbia is prepared to compromise, it cannot make any meaningful concessions under duress...
...Columbia President should have left the protesters to maintain their vigil until they tired of the tedium. Without the threat of an impending clash or the excitement of a landmark legal case, the protesters' initial euphoria would quickly wear off. The endless speeches and slogans would become tiresome; the urban bivouac would lose its glamor. The demonstrators numbers would slowly dwindle until the most stalwart holdouts finally returned to their dorms...
There were several curious, though unfortunately accurate, assumptions in the Saturday, April 6th article "Ralliers Stage Vigil," made by Harvard's legal counsel, Dan Steiner...
...letters written at Harvard will be added to nationwide pool accumulated by the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) in preparation for a series of state-wide protests and a national vigil in Washington next month, organizers said earlier this week...