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...armored shell to sniper bullets and shrapnel from roadside bombs. As the convoy rolls down the back roads, Swenson and the guys in her humvee keep up an easy, comradely banter, joking about the Iraqi kids they see along their patrol: one boy moves like a hip-hop dancer, another like a ninja fighter. Swenson says, "What I'll remember isn't threatening Iraqis with my machine gun but seeing the children wave as we go by," and then adds that "sometimes they do throw rocks." And so she remains vigilant. The roads are peppered with hidden land mines...
...dance community at last night’s meeting declared its support for a plan that would reconstruct their dance floor anew. Philip Burling, a tango dancer, said that dancers are fond of the floor but understand that it may have to be renovated. “The reason we love it so much is that it’s got this give—it bounces a little, but that also makes it structurally unstable,” he said...
...have to meet the new country's citizenship requirements, which vary widely. But, says David Fitzpatrick, sports director of the International Ice Hockey Federation, "you shouldn't be able to just grab a passport and represent a country at an event." Nonetheless, national rosters are full of ringers. Ice dancer Tanith Belbin was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. in 1998. A strong contender for a medal with her American partner Ben Agosto, Belbin finally got her U.S. passport by a special amendment to a congressional act on Dec. 31, 2005, a day before the U.S. Olympic Committee...
...each episode a contestant is marooned alone on an isle that hides an immunity idol to protect against the weekly vote-offs. But gimmicks aside, Survivor always comes down to the casting, conflicts and characters, and so far the competitors in this set are promisingfrom a "fire dancer" to a retired space-shuttle astronaut. He should know a thing or two about being stuck with a small group for extended periods...
...dramatic arts at Harvard. She’s not a taskmaster, but in four decades of teaching at Harvard and Radcliffe, during which she virtually built the dance program from scratch, she’s learned that art is a task, first and foremost.With an elegance particular to matron dancers, Mallardi speaks of her life with a combination of grace and wry humor. Her stories flow from convivial to grave, from focused to tangential. She spent her childhood in the Bronx, learning tap and jazz by going to the cinema and imitating Fred Astaire and his ilk. Her first dance...