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...already embattled corps of dancers and musicians. Leadership changed hands four times between 1995 and 2004, including a stint by famed former principal dancer Vasiliev, who was unceremoniously dismissed in 2000 by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself. The short-lived replacements were all part of Russian ballet's insular old guard. "They were doing Sleeping Beauty the way it had always been done," says Andre Lewis, artistic director of Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet, North America's second oldest ballet company. "The Bolshoi was stultified. It needed to change...
This university is its own, insular community full of people who have been taught from nursery school not to hit and to use their words. We made it to Harvard, in part, because we internalized this lesson particularly well—we use our words a lot, and we are confident that others will do the same. When one of the victims of last month’s thefts was approached by his assailants, he told them, “I don’t have time for this...
...research and create the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC), a new University-wide standing committee that will oversee the initiative. Creating and funding a cross-disciplinary authority marks an innovative and commendable change in Harvard’s approach to science, which has traditionally been governed by insular and competing departments.The decision to create HUSEC is in line with recommendations made by the University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering (UPCSE), which released its final report in December. While the committee expected a favorable reception from President Derek C. Bok and the deans, the considerable financial support...
...professor of journalism who is also a former Crimson president. “These threats to free management to the press exist everywhere in some way or another.” Participants in the collaborative effort recognized the rarity of journalistic teamwork in typically insular communities. “Many college newspapers are concerned about their independence and bristle at taking content from others,” said Mike Slaven, editor-in-chief of the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Daily. Daily Trojan staffers responded positively to the editorial. “I just can?...
...While Rothman found the tiny, intimate community at Deep Springs to be so insular that it was at times oppressive, it is precisely that closeness that Rosenblum struggles to articulate, concluding that its spirit is something an outsider just can’t understand...