The city has not allowed events with hundreds of thousands of people on the Great Lawn since it was rebuilt in 1996, though it has given permits for ticketed events sponsored by large corporations.
The cemetery's trustees, descendants of some of the people interred in the vaults — the last burial was in 1937 — have allowed events to be held on the grounds to help pay for badly needed repairs and restorations.
If he truly did not think the outcome in Libya mattered if he had been willing to live with a Qaddafi victory then he could have hung back and allowed events to proceed.
JUDITH LAVINE Watertown, Mass., Aug. 8, 2011 To the Editor: The simple answer to Drew Westen's exhaustive article could be this sub-headline answering the question "What Happened to Obama?": "The president has allowed events to control him, not vice versa".
Writing in his statement about the confrontation at the Jackson family home on 23 July, Jermaine said "it was clear that mutual suspicions had allowed events to spiral out of control".
The staunchly traditional Royal and Ancient, which deigned to admit women members only a couple of months ago, helped write the rules and the European Tour allowed events to take place in conjunction with its own tournaments.
