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...killed and the Nutcracker prevails. He takes Clara to the Enchanted Forest ruled by the Snow Queen and King, danced by Lia Cirio and Pavel Gurevich with wonderful virtuosity and panache. The sets by Helen Pond and Herbert Senn were well worth the price of admission and generated audible awe at the rise of the curtain for the second act. The second act might be the one realm in the ballet trajectory that is familiar to almost everyone. Anyone can hum along to the Russian dance, even as Jared Redick wows with a series of split jumps reaching extraordinary levels...
Despite the missing billions and plenty of how-could-this-have-happened awe in the media, the actual prosecution case against Madoff may be pretty straightforward. He has already admitted guilt to a federal agent. What's more, Madoff is reportedly trying to negotiate a plea agreement that could conclude the fraud case against him without a trial. But that's just the beginning of Litt's work. Madoff took as much as $50 billion from investors around the world, working with dozens of feeder funds and other middlemen to lure money into his scheme. Litt will have to decide...
...hours, a city that usually seems immune to surprises watched in awe as approximately 1,000 paradegoers stopped traffic, filled the streets and spread their message to "celebrate love." A rainbow-colored dragon bobbed over the heads of carefully coiffed men donning dainty dresses and dancing to "Celebrate Pride," which warbled through a loudspeaker in the center of the city. Men with fiery red-feathered tiaras chanted, "Pride parade! Pride parade! Pride parade!" in Cantonese and English while marching through Hong Kong's congested Hennessy Road waving multicolored pride flags. (See TIME's top 10 pictures...
...society with learned scholars speaking Greek,” said Diana C. Wise ’09, a History and Literature concentrator who is pursuing a secondary field in medieval studies. “The idea of me being part of this society put me in awe...
...that suggested a less-subtle Gilbert Gottfried. His shady partner Dodgeson (Justin Durel) was disgusted; the audience loved it.Although the play’s lines and plot were mostly taken from the movie, the resulting spectacle was vastly different. In the absence of special effects, the characters’ awe at the dinosaurs became absurd. Upon arriving at the island and seeing a “Brontosaurus,” Alan Grant (Adam Endres) fell to the ground in hysterical amazement. The Brontosaurus’s legs—two tall pieces of painted cardboard that actors tapped...