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Watts, who found out about the job on April 16 but made her acceptance public over the weekend, will move permanently to her University Hall office after Commencement. Until then, she will split her time between the two jobs...
That precision, for better and worse, pervades the play’s new Loeb Ex staging, which opened on Friday and runs through this Saturday. There’s precision in its characters’ affected mannerisms, split-second swivels of mood and stuffy social conventions; there’s artful precision in the slow pacing of its lighting changes. The play is a Swiss watch, and the Ex production exposes its grinding, churning gears for all to see: audience members box in the action on three sides, and the set—decorated with glass, sheer fabrics and transparent...
...Central Intelligence was supposed to become head of all the intelligence networks, government-wide. But over the years the Pentagon created its own intelligence arms, and it now commands the lion's share of intelligence budgets, much of them spent on satellites. CIA directors have complained of this split-screen arrangement for years, noting that they can hardly be responsible for solid intelligence if they don't control the purse strings. Two years ago, Scowcroft, acting as chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, proposed to fix that disconnect once...
...more than three decades, the Supreme Court has been able to define this common ground. Its complex process of getting there through split decisions based on opinions that concur and dissent in parts can seem magical. In fact, that magic has a human face to it: that of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. By being the practical-minded swing vote on the court, she has quietly become one of the most influential people in the U.S. and, at age 74, has let friends know that she has no plans to relinquish that role...
...Crimson's B team split its singles matches, 3-3, but came through with strong doubles teams in a 6-3 victory...