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With the Bolshoi now firmly recommitted to invention, Ratmansky was able to lure two of the biggest names in Western ballet - the American director and choreographer Twyla Tharp, and the energetic young British choreographer Christopher Wheeldon to each produce a one-act ballet at the Bolshoi this season. (Wheeldon's, a brand-new work called Misericors, debuted on Feb. 13.) "I don't want the Bolshoi to be the work of just one choreographer," Ratmansky says. Unlike years past, when a dancer's name - like Baryshnikov or Maximova - would be a key advertising point, at the new Bolshoi...
...degree, our curriculum,” Mason explains. According to him, Sciences Po has several programs stateside. “Harvard was my first choice.”So what exactly drew Mason to Cambridge? “The prestige in Europe,” Mason explains, but the lure of exploring the historic east coast was also attractive. Boston winters aside, Mason says adjusting to life at Harvard wasn’t too difficult. Life on the campus is readily easy, Mason explains. “There’s a house, there’s tutors. It?...
...University of Washington (UW) is seeking to lure Christopher J.L. Murray ’83—the current director of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health and the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies—to its Seattle campus, where he would lead a new global health center tentatively called the “Health Metrics Institute...
...Bollinger risked alienating the University of Michigan, where he was president at the time. The search committee placed itself in a difficult position by seeking candidates with academic administrative experience—a prerequisite according to professors and administrators alike—and then attempting to lure those leaders away from their current institutions. But no one among the select group of Ivy presidents and their peers turned out to be a finalist for the Harvard position. The committee members ignored public denials of all candidates, according to individuals familiar with the search. But there were three statements that...
When Lieut. General David Petraeus appeared beforethe Senate Armed Services Committee a few weeks ago, he was subjected to a curious line of questioning by Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. The questions seemed substantive, but they weren't really. They were intended to lure the general into the Senate's political debate over a nonbinding resolution of disapproval of the President's so-called surge policy in Iraq. In the manner of a friendly prosecutor, Lieberman steered Petraeus toward his objective--a clear statement from the general that such a resolution would hurt the morale of our troops...