Word: freer
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...1940s. “It’s based on the principle of allowing gravity to do what it does naturally.”When Koch first began experimenting with the Limón technique, she found it difficult to let go of her classical training and adopt the freer movements pioneered by Limón. Koch, who has studied ballet, modern dance, tap, jazz, and musical theatre to varying degrees of proficiency, has been dancing seriously since she was eleven years old. “Modern [dance] is really where I’m at home. But the golden...
...advocates," says Robert J. Spitzer, political scientist at SUNY Cortland and author of The Politics of Gun Control. "It could be a catalyzing event." Both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates would have to reassure the political center that they supported modest forms of gun control, but Democrats would be freer to defy the N.R.A. than Republicans, who rely more heavily on their pro-gun base...
...still the prism--look at Obama's push for U.N. or even NATO intervention in Darfur, or Edwards' tough talk about Vladimir Putin's rollback of democracy in Russia. Blairism, at its heart, is optimistic. It assumes that the U.S., working with its allies, can make other countries freer, healthier and richer. It assumes those countries will generally want our help. Above all, it assumes that the key to U.S. security is building a world that looks more like us. Blairism may be less militaristic than neoconservatism, but it's still a missionary creed...
...chosen an interesting time to engage. Russia is at a fulcrum. Fueled by high prices for energy and raw materials, the economy is booming as it has not been in decades. Most Russian citizens live infinitely freer lives now than they did during the Soviet era of gulags and totalitarianism. But Russia's political system is dominated by a military-industrial-security complex, many of whose members (like Putin) have roots in the old KGB and seem determined to maintain control of the nation's natural resources for their own benefit. Kasparov doesn't believe Russia's leaders are readying...
...TIME: You worked a long time with the British, and now with the Chinese. What's the difference? TSANG: We are a lot freer now. The only thing the central government has a keen interest in is our constitutional development. Every other thing, our economic policy, our social policy, is run from here. Before 1997, London would clear those things. Every morning I would spend three quarters of an hour reading telegrams from London, and do another two hours of [related] work. I never do that...