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...bottle of beer? I am an intolerable food snob, but I am also from middle-class New Jersey, and the upper reaches of the grocery aisles can make me want to smash something, like a tiny bottle of $145 balsamic vinegar that comes in a box with a 106-page book...
...miraculous. Many expected that white rule in Southern Africa would end in a bloodbath. But there was a price. While the new rulers accepted the notions of Western-style multiparty democracy, in their hearts the liberation movements did not contemplate that they could lose power at the ballot box...
...intellectual challenge - "disrupting their expectations," as McGregor puts it - than entertaining them in the traditional fashion. This isn't new in itself; what's new is the arrival of conceptual work in the dance establishment's mainstream. McGregor's Chroma, a starkly beautiful piece set in a minimalist box of white light, was the popular hit of the 2006-07 Royal Ballet season at London's Covent Garden, and led to his being appointed the Royal's resident choreographer - a radical evolution given that he has no formal classical-dance training. Other McGregor pieces are now in the repertoires...
...Abuse is an unpleasant experience,” Durso said. “The victims are taking that experience, putting it in a little box in the back of their mind, and closing it and not opening it until certain circumstances make it come forth...
...founding in 1923 - against a powerful, newly moneyed class rooted in political Islam. The political vehicle of this class, the Justice and Development Party (AKP), was reelected last summer with an overwhelming 47% of the vote. The old guard, having failed to beat the newcomers at the ballot box, has now asked the country's top court to ban the AKP and its leaders for undermining secularist principles they say are enshrined in Turkey's constitution...