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Under the direction of Evan Christ, the orchestra is surprisingly able to maintain the liveliness of the score even after hours of playing. However, it is often difficult to hear the voices of the actors over the brass and strings, especially during Trial By Jury...
Early on, the Harvard brass had realized it needed to plug the leaks in the presidential search process. The task fell to Secretary to the Corporation Robert Shenton and University Attorney Michael W. Roberts. It was a thankless task for both men. A scene observed by reporters at the Waldorf seemed to characterize the effort. As Harvard's governing boards dined with Rudenstine inside the hotel's Louis XVI room, Roberts sat alone in the anteroom reading that day's New York Times. Inside the paper was an article reporting that Rudenstine was the search committee's choice, a fact...
Among the people who don't want to see cops back on the beat are many of the cops themselves. Middle-level department brass are suspicious of plans that make patrol officers more independent. Many of the rank-and-file personnel also scoff at anything that smacks of social work. "There's an unfounded fear that it detracts from the macho image and takes the fun out of putting the bad guys in jail," says Carolyn Robison, a Tulsa police major. A lot of officers just don't like walking. For years, being assigned to the beat was a standard...
Most of Moscow's brass, however, is not absorbing that lesson and is simply demanding more money. That is in part a knee-jerk reaction, conditioned by a series of shocks to the military system, like the humiliation in Afghanistan, the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, and two years of major cuts in the defense budget...
...censorship which downplayed the savage nature of that war. Members of the media absolutely refused to question administration policy--at least until very late in the war, when most Americans supported withdrawal anyway. The reasons ranged from fear of offending the parents of soldiers to conservatism among the network brass. But after Vietnam, the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, a more cynical press emerged--one that was unwilling to cotton to the government's requests for non-critical reporting...