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...After Ratmansky took office, he quickly addressed his foremost challenge: uniting a company in deep discord while redirecting its repertory. There was no doubt the Bolshoi lacked artistic focus. But how to keep traditionalists satisfied while simultaneously introducing new work? "I wanted to find a repertoire that would be the new phase of the Bolshoi," Ratmansky says. "It's about resurrecting [older] ballets and bringing in people to make new classics...
...Presidential Search Committee By THE CRIMSON STAFF Friday, October 27, 2006 In a series of editorials, under the banner of “The Search for a President,” we will focus on the concrete issues that the next president will have to address...
...tenure, we can speculate on the reasons. Perhaps, for example, it was because he refuses to join in “mainstream” research. Sherley, a stem cell scientist, will not work with anything but adult stem cells while most of his colleagues in the field believe the focus should be on fetal stem cells. Could this have been an issue? Of course not, it was probably all because Sherley is black. (Never mind the fact that Phillip L. Clay, MIT’s chancellor, is also black...
...Here! By GISELLE BARCIA, BRIGIT M. HELGEN, and JILLIAN K. SWENCIONIS Friday, February 16, 2007 Both in print and in conversation, the discussion of this huge event has veered away from substantive issues about Faust’s vision for the University; instead it has had a remarkably narrow focus: gender...
...Significantly, Japan refused to contribute to the aid unless progress is made on its core issue, the fate of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and '80s. While the Bush Administration publicly supports Japan's focus on abductions, it didn't escape notice in Tokyo that the issue took a clear backseat to denuclearization at the talks - and that the U.S. raised the possibility of removing North Korea from its list of terrorism-sponsoring states, something Japan vociferously opposes. "Japan felt betrayed," says Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor of international relations at Tokyo's Waseda University. If Washington...