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...even if he will appoint a third of the seats. The emir wins praise for scaling back military purchases; he believes they encourage corruption and that Qatar is too small to defend itself against a major attack anyway. Hamad has begun to reform the education system, with the ambitious aim of upgrading it to U.S. standards...
...conference of French-speaking nations in Lebanon in a futile bid to stop the relentless march of the English language, spearheaded by American popular culture. But he's not going to give up. His pistols may not be as powerful as George W. Bush's, but his aim is true. He will choose his targets carefully - and frequently - before he rides off into the sunset...
...with the personnel available, that aim certainly seems within reach...
Even the venue in which Mateo’s company now resides attests to his aim to liberate ballet from conventional theater. Mateo and his 15-year-old company have negotiated a 41-year lease at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, which they moved into in July 2000. A Gothic church replete with vertical lines of tracery and paneling as well as a gorgeous stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany may be an unlikely venue for a dance troupe. However, the notion is not entirely alien to dance. The Judson Church in New York’s Greenwich Village...
...with the personnel available, that aim certainly seems within reach...