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DIED. MOIRA SHEARER, 80, exquisite, flame-haired prima ballerina whose brief, stellar career as a principal dancer with Britain's famed Sadler's Wells Ballet was overshadowed, to her dismay, by her lead role in the 1948 ballet film The Red Shoes; in Oxford, England. Shearer, who continued to act but gave up dancing in her late 20s, said all the hype surrounding the Oscar-winning film "ruined my career...
...Seattle, worked for 11 hours to repair his right ankle. Although he lost the foot and nine inches of his left leg, his right side was intact thanks to three pins holding the ankle together. Subsequent operations removed most of the shrapnel in his body, to Braddock's dismay. "I was hoping to put a magnet on it," he jokes...
...native son Gustav Klimt have long graced everything in Austria from chocolate wrappings to subway walls. The real things, so emblematic of Vienna's embrace of early 20th century Art Nouveau, attract tens of thousands of art lovers to the city each year. So it was with genuine dismay that Austrians woke one morning last week to discover that five of the artist's best-known works housed in the Belvedere Palace - including the famous golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, the painting's original owner - were suddenly no longer theirs. After a seven-year legal battle, an Austrian arbitration...
Even Bush's supporters criticize his lack of fiscal restraint. They look with dismay at figures showing that the federal workforce of about 2.7 million is roughly the same size it was at the beginning of President Bill Clinton's second term. And they point out that Bush has not vetoed a single bill since taking office. "It's hard to veto something from a Congress dominated by your own party," says Murray Weidenbaum, who was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan, "but Bush should have been tougher on the spending side. That's been...
...have been a sharp response by the Israeli government and the attendant threat to his leadership in a project he has worked hard to realize. Robertson, a leader in the evangelical branch that supports Israel's existence as the fulfillment of biblical prophecies anticipating Christ's return-hence his dismay at its "division"-has many interests there. Most notably, he is collaborating with the Israeli government and a group of evangelicals to build a $50 million Evangelical "heritage center" on the Sea of Galilee. Israel was to provide the land and infrastructure for the project, leaving the funding...