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...into the water with a specific whale and whether the animal is ready psychologically and physically for a safe performance. Trainers depend on their long and close relationship with each animal to read their moods. Kasatka is likely to undergo a lengthy period of evaluation, with trainers working backward with records from weeks and months past to figure out what may have led to this incident. (She'd had a minor run-in with Peters about nine years ago.) So while Kasatka is back onstage, her trainers will direct her performances from outside the water...
...annual growth for the past few years but it was vital to make that growth "inclusive," said Singh, an economist who began liberalizing India's moribund economy in the early 1990s. "Unless growth is inclusive, unless we create a lot more jobs in the process, unless we include the backward communities" then growth will be pointless...
...overturned, the schools will quickly return to sorting themselves by race. PTA-board member Mary Myers is so concerned that she is organizing a bus trip to Washington so Louisville parents can protest outside the Supreme Court next week. "What in the world are we trying to go backward for?" she asks. In a sign of what might be coming, a judge in 2000 forced Jefferson County to stop applying the district's guidelines at an inner-city magnet school because the career academy offers unique programs--like legal services and veterinary science--that students can't get anywhere else...
...White Swan, Black Swan” exhibits an evocative vibrancy resulting from Sharp’s privileging of experiential description over critical terminology: “Like balsa bent into a bow, I am rocked into an impossible backward C, Nilas holding my arms and one leg above us, stringing me up. Then I am lashed beneath his body. My leg is extended high and pressed between us like a sword. Our pelvises meet and pulse. The audience takes a collective breath...
...some observers, the choice of Trent Lott as the new number two Republican in the Senate may seem like a step backward for a party still reeling from its election drubbing. But in fact the upset victory by the Mississippi Senator, bounced out of his post as the Republican leader of the Senate four years ago after he made comments praising then-Senator Strom Thurmond for his segregationist 1948 presidential campaign, may be the clearest sign yet of how the G.O.P. plans to move forward...