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...Balanchine?s greatest transformations was on the other side of the footlights. When he and his patron Lincoln Kirstein founded the New York City Ballet in 1948, the audience for ballet in the U.S. was on a par with that for, say, dog shows or jai alai. Today, although support for orchestras and theater companies is wavering, ballet is booming, with new companies proliferating and talented youngsters springing up continually. Much of the credit goes to Balanchine, to the brilliance of his 400-plus works and to the seminal influence of the NYCB and its satellite School of American Ballet...
...going to raise them unless he has no other choice, and even if he wanted to, more conservative Republicans in the state house of representatives have sworn it will never pass. Another revenue option on the table is allowing electronic gambling machines at racetracks and jai alai stadiums, where gambling already goes on. But it's not a reliable cash source, and who wants to campaign for national office as the governor who brought video slot machines to the state with the largest population of senior citizens in America...
...RETURNEES Jason Forte; Earl Hunt; Alai Nuualiitia; Jamie Kilburn; Patrick Powers...
...delicate sport,” she says. In fact, according to the club’s website and numerous other badminton sites, the shuttlecock—which can travel at speeds up to 200 mph—is the second-fastest-moving object in sports behind the jai-alai ball. “Bad,” as O’Connor and her teammates call it, is a game of nuance, strategy and superhuman agility, played most competitively in Southeast Asia and Denmark. Badminton was first observed by British army personnel in occupied India circa 1850, where?...
Brown poses an immediate challenge for a team coming off of the long rest imposed by final exams. The Bears boast two of the league’s best scorers, guard Earl Hunt (21.3 points per game) and forward Alai Nuualiitia (11.9 ppg). Six times this season, Brown has scored over 90 points...