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Founded in 1776 on the orders of Catherine the Great, the Bolshoi practically defined the art form of ballet. But it did not achieve its near mythical standing until after the 1917 revolution, Moscow was made capital and the Bolshoi became a primary cultural ambassador of the newly founded Soviet Union - a role it maintained for the next seven decades. Through the years, the Old Theater's stage was home to some of dance's biggest names, including Galina Ulanova, who danced the definitive Romeo and Juliet in the 1950s, and her contemporaries, the couple Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev...
...military of Shi'ite militiamen, some of whom used the immunity of their uniforms to avenge old grudges against Sunnis. Sunni terrorism groups stepped up their bombing campaign, which convinced Shi'ites that the former ruling class was never going to accept its reduced status. By the time U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad persuaded Sunni parties to take part in a second general election in December 2005, the two sects were some distance apart...
...Lieberman is uniquely positioned to influence the Bush Administration. In December 2004 the White House "sounded him out" for the job of U.N. ambassador, says a source close to Lieberman, and although he declined the offer, he remains in regular contact with the Executive Branch. Before Bush's State of the Union speech in January, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley brought in Lieberman for a private consultation with the President. Lieberman says he talks with or e-mails Hadley, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff and White House legislative-affairs head Candida Wolff every week...
...should call him Hallyu.” Jin-Young Park denied that his work was even part of the wave and said he was uncomfortable with attempts to steer Hallyu in a nationalist direction. His stand led to a disagreement with Jung-Sook Park, who is a cultural ambassador-at-large for South Korea. Responding to him at length, she conceded that the cultural issue was complex...
...addition to criticism from the Clintonites, the deal faces carping on the right. John Bolton, Bush's former ambassador to the U.N. and his lead negotiator in the early rounds of six-party talks, said the deal sends a signal to proliferators that they can be rewarded for bad behavior. "He's just wrong," Rice sniffed, in response to Bolton's criticisms. The Administration argues that the latest deal is much stronger than the one negotiated in '94 because it effectively isolates Kim. The Clinton deal was bilateral, whereas this time all North Korea's neighbors, including its closest ally...