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Shakespearean splendor. At San Diego's US Grant Hotel, part of Starwood's Luxury Collection, you get a 3-course dinner and tickets to San Diego Ballet's performance of Romeo & Juliet. Hope your night ends better than theirs did. Rates start at $349. Ask for the "Passion" package.326 Broadway, San Diego...
...strive harder." At their kitchen in California, they ran time trials, tinkering with everything from the garnish on their pistachio-crusted cod to the shape of their beef filet (in the end, it went from square to round), and learning to move past each other in a graceful ballet...
...Ballet enthusasists track the passage of time in terms of a ballet company’s spring season, winter season, and “The Nutcracker.” For those folks who instead rely on a calendar, the general consensus is that the opening night of “The Nutcracker” is the official beginning of the string of ensuing holidays. It is a time capsule of magic, warmth, and joy—for adults, a foray into childhood and innocent dreams; for children, an escape into an extraordinary land in which one can be transported...
Rahm, the middle child, studied ballet before serving a stint as a volunteer at an Israeli supply base (though a myth has grown that he actually served in the Israeli army). After that, he went into political fundraising--first for Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and then for a little-known Arkansas Governor named Bill Clinton, who chose him to be White House political director after Clinton was elected in 1992. It was the first of a series of jobs Emanuel would hold in the Clinton White House before leaving in 1999 for the investment firm Wasserstein, Perella & Co., where...
...peace cause was not aided by the way the Israeli military muzzled media coverage of the war. Most correspondents were barred from entering Gaza, and viewers of Israeli TV news were, for the most part, shown only the aerial ballet of fighter planes streaking through pillars of smoke rising from the bombs they had dropped. Yossi Sarid, a Ha'aretz columnist and former Meretz politician, says, "People only saw the sterile version of the war. I think they'll be shocked when they see the images coming out of Gaza once the reporters are allowed inside...