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For 32 years, the Waifish Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova entranced critics with her quick, intense energy and poetic style in classic and contemporary productions, including Giselle, Swan Lake and Spartacus. In 1995 she took on another role when her husband, Bolshoi artistic director Yuri Grigorovich, quit amid a...
For me, years of pent-up curiosity would finally be satiated--at least a little. I've covered this country on and off for almost two decades--from Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing and now Shanghai--but despite repeated requests for a visa, I'd never been allowed in. Perhaps this was...
Buoyed by its historic success last weekend, the Harvard men’s basketball team (8-18, 3-7 Ivy) travels to Columbia tonight and Cornell tomorrow night to challenge a pair of the Ivy elites.The timing could not be better for the Crimson. Last weekend, the squad notched a...
In Iowa, Bill Clinton shaded his own nuanced record on the war, saying he "opposed Iraq from the beginning"; in New Hampshire, the criticism he got for that didn't stop him from blasting Obama's claim of steadfast opposition to the war as a "fairy tale." He twisted Obama...
There's something egglike about the concept of experience as a qualification for the highest office. At first blush, the idea appears to be something you can get your hands around. Presidential experience means a familiarity with the levers and dials of government, knowing how to cajole the Congress, understanding...