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- January 23, 2005: Index: PCOL Exclusive: Criticism Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 8:50 am [49]
- February 2, 2000: Headlines: Theatre: Criticism: Thirsty Theatre: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth, a former Peace Corps volunteer gone astray, works for a cutthroat company that is eating its way through the world under the misleadingly harmless name of Iris and Rose Sunday, August 15, 2004 - 1:14 pm [1]
- February 2, 2000: Headlines: Theatre: Criticism: Roundabout Theatre Arts: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth Hoyle makes his living selling defective baby formula in third-world markets. A former Peace Corps volunteer and 1960s idealist, Hoyle has succumbed to the bottom line in a corrupt and nefarious business. Friday, September 02, 2005 - 6:43 pm [2]
- February 2, 2000: Headlines: Theatre: Criticism: Stage Left: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth and Barbara met and married 14 years ago while they were young idealists in the US Peace Corps. They are still associated with developing countries, but Kenneth's idealism has mutated into business rhetoric, shrugging off accusations that his company is out for dirty money by selling defective baby formula to developing world mothers. Saturday, June 19, 2004 - 11:54 am [1]
- February 2, 2000: Headlines: Theatre: Criticism: Thirsty Theatre: Jon Robin Baitz's Play "Three Hotels": Kenneth Hoyle, who's repudiated his Peace Corps idealism and the memory of his parents' Holocaust survival, rejecting the righteous for the bottom line Sunday, June 13, 2004 - 11:28 pm [1]
- May 26, 2004: Headlines: Criticism: COS - India: East Bay Express: "We were sort of the anti-Peace Corps," Terry Tarnoff says. "The people in the Peace Corps had very positive motivations, but they tended to go over to places like Africa in order to teach the Africans how to better their conditions. But we went over to learn from the Africans." Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 6:38 pm [1]
- January 12, 1998 - Friends of Guinea: Senator Jesse Helms was quoted by the New York Times earlier this week resisting the public expenditure for the Peace Corps as, "more ratfood for the third world" and that "I've been telling people for years that Peace Corps was a refuge for drugged-out losers, leftists and homosexuals" Friday, September 08, 2006 - 1:55 pm [3]