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Beyond the high-profile productions are a number of other shows worth following. Among these are such varied offerings as Gilgamesh, billed as the "world's oldest epic," Chickencoop Chinaman, described as the first Asian-American production at Harvard and Dreams in Amber, a "music/theater dreamplay." And like last year's Wuthering Heights, there will be another staging of an honors thesis project...
...preparation for Golovchenko's X-ray andelectron tunneling experiments, JeffersonLaboratory--which Professor of Physics Isaac F.Silvera said is the oldest Physics laboratory inthe country--will be renovated by July...
...sacrosanct is the congressional seniority system that the late Carl Hayden, an Arizona Democrat, ruled the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee into his 90s. The current chairman, Mississippi's John Stennis, is 85. The oldest House member, Claude Pepper of Florida, 86, chairs the Rules Committee. "There's something wrong with a system that keeps you from the top job until you're in your 70s," muses Florida Democrat Charles Bennett, 76. "But nobody can come up with anything better...
...Pets. This sort of secondhand glory is an old story in sports, dating back at least to football's Detroit Lions' and Chicago Bears' attempting to identify with the established baseball teams, the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs. Another kind of identity problem forced the Cincinnati Reds, America's oldest professional sports team, to change their name to the Redlegs during the height of the cold war. One Cincinnati sportswriter objected on the ground that since the Moscow Reds were the newcomers, they should be asked to change their name...
Journalist Phillip Knightley prefers his legends lightly tarnished. An earlier book, The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, removed the romantic luster from combat journalism. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century is a pickling look at the romantic past and bureaucratic present of the flourishing espionage business...