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...production is saved by the individual performances that make the whole a pleasurable experience. On Sunday evening, Erica Cornejo was a wispy, lithe Cinderella. Cornejo is a recent import from American Ballet Theatre (ABT), where she received top billing dancing the part of the bespectacled, uncoordinated, and hysterical “other” step-sister two years ago. What was New York’s loss is Boston’s gain: her extraordinary, larger-than-life jump and passionate, explosive movement as Cinderella here is breath-taking. With one step she consumes the whole stage, and you need...
...long placed religious studies above science and math (unlike that of the lites, who are often Western-educated). Reforms are under way, but it will be years before Saudi universities are churning out world-class engineers in the numbers the country needs. Nor can businesses expect to simply import employees, which has long been the norm in the Persian Gulf economies: mindful of that youth bulge, Riyadh is imposing a "Saudi-ization" program that requires businesses to hire more locals. It doesn't help that employers don't have access to half the potential workforce: despite some recent gains...
...damage had been mounting so swiftly that in the midst of a global stock-market rout that ate 18% of the Dow, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was forced to import a plan he once considered practically un-American. Paralleling a program authored by U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, it called for the U.S. government to take partial ownership of nine leading banks and offer to buy pieces of hundreds of others. On Oct. 13, the nine bank bosses, assembled in the Treasury's imposing boardroom, were each handed a piece of paper with the terms: $25 billion of preferred shares...
...pleather. That attraction—the world’s longest couch, which was featured on Church Street—was just one of the many draws at Cambridge’s most recent rendition of the 200 year-old Bavarian tradition. But while the Cambridge organizers imported the name from Munich’s storied event, they didn’t necessarily import the spirit: unlike Bavaria’s legions of inebriated revelers, Harvard Square was filled more with young families. Indeed, the Square’s streets were lined with booths hosted by the likes of Amnesty...
...real egg industry fear is not that California will import its eggs, but rather that it will export its higher welfare standards. When asked why out-of-state egg producers oppose the proposition, Samson conceded they fear “longer-term ramifications” against caged production. After similar ballot initiatives against pig and veal calf confinement in Florida and Arizona in 2002 and 2006 respectively, industry took the message. Smithfield Farms, one of the nation’s largest pig producers, announced it would phase out narrow gestation crates, and even Burger King promised to adopt more cage...