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...suppose there are those out there who found Professor Cornel West's apology for his participation in the Million Man March somewhat short of convincing. To me, reading the op-ed piece in the New York Times was out-right painful. Here was a stunning exemplar of that genre of moral acrobatics that I shall call the "bracket...
Among the ballerinas, Yulia Makhalina seems to have pride of place, having danced the first performance of both Swan Lake and Cinderella. She is the latest exemplar of a type of dancer Vinogradov likes: tall, elegantly slender, chilly and lacking the turned-out hip position most classical dancers have. Makhalina will remind audiences of Galina Mezentseva, the director's beautiful but glacial favorite in the '80s. Younger ballerinas are developing, especially the limpid Zhanna Ayupova, who redeems Cinderella with a shy, radiant, technically assured performance in the lead role...
...youthful matron eventually revealed she had been taking birth-control pills, containing estrogen and a second female hormone, progesterone. That was the very formula Wilson had developed as a means not only to treat menopausal complaints but also to forestall the aging process. Mrs. P.G. was a lush exemplar of his notion that "menopause is unnecessary. It can be prevented entirely...
...Jewett finally took Nike's offer to sell sneakers as a "Just Do It" exemplar by just doing it to the housing lottery. Flying in the face of adversity, albeit without wearing running shoes, Jewett went all the way--no more ninny-pinny non-ordered choice. He truly embodies that go-get-'em Nike ideal...
...Grand Banks fisheries off the coast of Newfoundland have long been the world's richest supply of fish; today, they are a sad exemplar of the tragedy of the commons. In this tragedy, a shared resource is pillaged by those with access to it because, where individual and group incentives collide without coordination and enforcement, the individual incentive reigns supreme. Although all nations with rights to fish in the area have a group interest in sustaining the fishery, each individual nation has an incentive to overfish, so long as all others play by the rules. This dynamic produces a downward...