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The time to pay court to some kind of Russian mystique is over. American Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake is better than the Kirov's capricious version in both concept and execution. With one exception: the Russian troupe's marvelously schooled corps de ballet in the so-called white act...
Judges rate the athletes on their execution of basic steps and techniques, artistic ability, footwork, interpretation and timing. But the Olympic committee has yet to decide whether ballroom dancing will be a winter or summer sport, according to Fung.
Inmates on South Africa's Death Row cheered wildly upon hearing that the country's highest court had banned capital punishment. Over 450 prisoners had been in limbo since 1990, when the former government declared a moratorium on executions during the transition to democratic rule. The country previously had one...
What this introductory execution has to do with the Limehouse murders is, essentially, the question and plot of the novel. Unfortunately, this malange of fiction and fact is longer on intellectual pleasures than emotional resonance. Ackroyd has Dickensian ambitions and tries to show a city full of interlocking coincidences leading...
The validity of his confession, however, is heatedly disputed -- no small matter since police have no witnesses, no weapon, not even a fingerprint, to further link Davis to the Biebel case. The police insist that Davis offered his confession without prompting; Davis counters that it was coerced under threat of...