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Enter the Zingaro Theater in Aubervilliers, just north of Paris, and you step into another place and time. An Elizabethan-style theater-in-the-round spreads[an error occurred while processing this directive] before you beneath a soaring beamed ceiling. As the show opens on the circle of earth below, a gypsy troupe sleeps as their horses gather around a waterfall. It is the morning of a great wedding feast. Bartabas, who co-founded the equestrian theater Zingaro (Italian for gypsy) in 1984, has a new show, Battuta (beat or rhythm in Romany), which also features bears, geese, dogs...
Penney and Kohl's are taking advantage of the middle opportunity. "They're cannibalizing the market from beneath them, and they're benefiting from the trickle down from traditional department stores who are trading out of Middle America," says David Wolfe, a fashion-retail consultant for the Doneger Group in New York City. "They're getting it coming and going...
...light of these hurdles, many lawyers rely heavily on the media to bolster their cases. At times, media scrutiny can pressure judges into ruling a certain way. It may also attract attention from more powerful government organs that pressure the institutions beneath them to comply with the law and settle out of court or even change laws and policies. In 2003, for example, a lawsuit by relatives of Sun Zhigang, a man beaten to death in police detention after being arrested for not carrying his ID card, provoked an intense public outcry, especially on Chinese Web sites. Three months after...
...annual Polar Bear Swim. The air temperature was 19 degrees Fahrenheit, although the brisk Northwest wind and flurries of snow made it feel more like four, but that didn’t stop devoted Klub members and their friends from shedding their clothing—some with bathing suits beneath, some with nothing at all. “I’m very excited but I’m kind of scared,” said Ryan S. Nolan ’09 before he stripped down. “The good news is that the river will probably...
...legacy of that process lies hidden beneath London's streets: 132 km long, the world's most elaborate sewer, which began construction in 1858, was completed in little more than a decade and is still a vital defense for a city that has not recorded a single outbreak of cholera since 1866. It's a testament to Victorian England's ability to construct grand solutions to big problems. That's a skill the modern world could use, says Johnson, noting that some 2 billion people are still at risk because they do not have access to clean water. "Unlike...