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...Wednesday night's rehearsals, the middle-aged man of 50 was showing the kids how it's done. "He'd take the stage with this group of dancers, all in their 20s, but you couldn't take your eyes off him," says Dorian Holley, vocal director for Michael Jackson's This Is It series of concerts, planned to begin this month in London. During Jackson's run-through at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, "he was giving a clinic to those dancers," recalls Bashiri Johnson, the percussionist on the tour. "Whenever he would do a move, he'd raise...
Opponents of the MADD push for stricter laws warn that a federal interlock requirement would serve as a Trojan horse, opening the way for even more sophisticated interlock technology that would be required on every car sold in the U.S., according to Sarah Longwell, managing director of the American Beverage Institute, which lobbies on behalf of taverns and restaurants. "If you go to the ball game and happen to have a beer you wouldn't be able drive home," she says. (Watch TIME's video: "Beer Pong Strikes Back...
...still remember Peter W. Kaplan ’76’s last day as editor-in-chief—it was my first day on the job. He was leaving for Conde Nast Traveler as their new creative director, to cook up ideas for saving journalism, but wouldn’t say good-bye without meeting the new interns...
...Some see another way to harness the energy of the youth movement. Ruth Kattumuri, a co-director of the Asia Research Center at the London School of Economics, encourages Western Tamil youth to promote peace and development in Sri Lanka, including creating more opportunities for Tamils by teaching them skills or helping provide medical care. "They can raise the resources they need to go there and work on rehabilitation and education," Kattumuri says, instead of seeking out media opportunities that she says promote violent images of rowdy protestors. "It's about creating projects, which gives them employability. That...
Back home, Bausch joined the Folkwang Ballet in Essen, where her own choreography became part of the program in 1968. Five years later, she became director and choreographer of the newly founded Wuppertal theater...