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...Bolshoi and elsewhere, choreography is embracing shorter, smaller-scale pieces, and that trend has led to a dearth of big-star roles. "People aren't choreographing for stars anymore - they're not doing Swan Lake," says Lynn Garafola, a dance historian and author of Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance. Increasingly, it's choreographers like Ratmansky who are taking their place as ballet's headliners. In one of Ratmansky's most celebrated moves, for example, in 2003 he restaged Bright Stream, the full-length ballet by radical Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which Stalin banned shortly after it premiered in Moscow...
...large gatherings would quickly turn into political uprisings. (Ashura was banned during most of Saddam Hussein's rule and resumed only after his downfall in 2003.) "For Shi'ites, Sunni rule has been like living under apartheid," says Vali Nasr, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future...
...asking them to do very different things that they are not equipped to do,” Gail L. Sunderman, a research assistant at the Harvard Civil Rights Project and an author of the report, said in an interview...
...always hide,” he said. “I can always go to a party and have an angry author confront me and say, ‘It was a group decision.’ Sometimes I’ll lie. I’m a coward...
...Ending the War.Virtually no Democrat thinks the others are doing enough to stop the war. Edwards said, "It is not enough to debate, give speeches and pass non-binding resolutions." Biden, the author of one of those non-binding resolutions opposing President Bush's troop surge in Iraq, said, "Don't talk about capping, do something." Clinton, Obama and Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd have proposed capping the number of troops in Iraq. Biden now says that the key is passing a law that revokes the authority President Bush has to fight the war, allowing troops in Iraq to only perform...