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...creating some innovative, delirious hallucinogen with no ties to the original, beautiful children’s tale that was E.T.A. Hoffman’s “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice.” In his production, which runs at the Boston Opera House through Dec. 28, Nissinen sticks, for the most part, to the tried and true formula, and the few innovations he does risk add charm to a story that will never suffer from superfluity.Nissinen surely took inspiration for his first scene from George Balanchine’s interpretation, arguably the preeminent version stateside. There...
...partying” traditions are showcased in “The Christmas Revels,” an annual show by production company Revels, Inc., with this year’s theme inspired by Thomas Hardy’s novels and set in Wessex, England. Playing at Sanders Theatre through Dec. 30, “Revels” includes everything from clogging to caroling to serpent playing (the serpent being a snake shaped, British musical instrument of yore). Though jaunty and lighthearted throughout, the show ultimately asks the audience to question why tradition is so easily forgotten. The show employs...
Park was arrested on Jan. 10 for a Dec. 29 posting in which he accused bureaucrats of ordering banks to stop buying dollars while the won was falling during last December's global economic crisis. The official news agency Yonhap reported that Park was also arrested for a July 2008 posting that said the Finance Ministry had suspended all foreign currency exchanges. Park's lawyer, Park Chan Jong, says prosecutors are alleging that the posting destabilized the foreign currency market to such an extent that an additional $2.2 billion injection was needed the next day to calm the market...
...Mitchell was tapped by Bud Selig, the commissioner of baseball, to conduct a thorough review of the sport's cuture of performance-enhancing drugs. Mitchell found, to no one's surprise, that steroid use was endemic; still, the Mitchell Report - which was released in Dec. 2007 and which named 89 players, including superstars Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, associated with drug use - helped quantify the extent of the problem...
...attain its objective by denying to the other side its objectives. Israelis are not likely to have sustainable security if the Palestinians don't have a state, and Palestinians will never achieve a state until the people of Israel have some security." - During an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Dec...