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...created a company steeped in the classical disciplines of French, Italian and especially Russian ballet. To fill its ranks, they started a tuition-free school with satellite academies in every province of the country. They scoured local schools and sports camps for young talent, regardless of the student's background. Graduates who didn't become performers became teachers. The result, as Alonso says, is "a Cuban school of ballet that is appreciated all over the world...
...musical? A rehearsal in Seoul earlier this month confirmed suspicions that Jung, who defected to South Korea from the North in 1994, is not looking to delight audiences with the kind of toe-tapping jollity dished up on Broadway: while a patriotic North Korean song blared in the background, a dozen actors playing prison guards marched menacingly in goosestep around three Yodok inmates caught trying to escape. Jung, who says his father was publicly executed in one of Kim's camps, intends to play things straight. The story, which Jung himself wrote, is nothing if not realistic, which...
...were thrown off the team for leaving without informing their national committee. It's likely events would not have gone quite so far without Guariniello, who has launched inconclusive doping probes against Torino soccer powerhouse Juventus and a star lineup of Italian cyclists. The 64-year-old, with a background in prosecuting health-code violations and medical crimes, takes a bare-knuckles approach to doping allegations. He said the real advantage of the law is not the threat of jail, but being able to utilize police methods that are unavailable to sports authorities. "Sports basically has one tool: the analysis...
...catalogue.Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics Eric Mazur, who served on the development committee for AP Physics from 1995-2000, said that the correlation between AP science exam scores and performance in college is weak.“In my class, I have had students with absolutely no physics background do better than people who make a 5 on the AP exam,” Mazur, who co-teaches the Physics Department’s introductory-level year-long sequence, said.Mazur said that AP exams “do a disservice to higher education...
...Given that, the best the Administration can hope for here is delay, and some artful revisions to the deal that give everyone enough cover to crawl back down out of their trees. Dubai's lobbyists are fingering amendments to the deal calling for additional proposals for greater background checks of managers and workers, as well as beefed-up security at the terminals if the deal is allowed to go through. That might be one way to salvage this operation. But it may already be too late for that band-aid, no matter how reasonable...