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...real entertainment began when baritone Earle Patriarco's Sergeant Belcore took the stage. A classic miles gloriosus, this Belcore had a vapidity no strutting could conceal. Equally but independently ridiculous was bass Dale Travis' Doctor Dulcamara, a hobo-quack who bore an eerie resemblance to the poet Donald Hall. Dulcamara's vendor antics completely undercut his dramatic entrance and resonant "udite" ("listen!"), and his abracadabra, Darkwing Duck gesturings made one laugh out loud. If it hadn't been for the skillful comic acting of these two, the farcical plot would have been in awkward tension with the gorgeous music. Though...
Even the notoriously cocky OPFOR was impressed. "We didn't even see them when they shot us," said Staff Sergeant David Kuusela, who commanded an armored personnel carrier during the battle. "We took a lot of losses today that we normally don't." But Kuusela added that EXFOR's yearlong preoccupation with mastering the new gear had allowed some of its combat skills to rust. "If their battlefield technique was a little better," he said, "they might have rolled...
...twice as good as anyone in the Army at getting where we're supposed to be when we're supposed to be there," said Staff Sergeant Dennis Clarke, who commands Lieut. Colonel French's faux M-1. "But when the bullets start flying, all the technology in the world counts for naught." His commanding general endorsed that view wholeheartedly. "The best computer out here," said Major General Paul Kern, "is still between our soldiers' ears...
Candor alone won't restore confidence in the NRC, which since its inception in 1974 has been accused of being too cozy with the industry it regulates. During a House oversight subcommittee hearing last fall, Representative Edward Markey of Massachusetts compared the agency to "Sergeant Schultz in the old Hogan's Heroes TV show, wandering through the barracks ignoring obvious violations and saying, 'I see nothing, I hear nothing.'" Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware has asked the Government Accounting Office for a sweeping assessment of NRC effectiveness. The report, due in May, is expected to be scathing. Among its findings...
SUSPENDED. ARMY SERGEANT MAJOR GENE C. MCKINNEY, 46, the service's highest-ranking enlisted officer; amid allegations that he sexually harassed a female aide. McKinney, a 28-year veteran, has denied any wrongdoing...