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...Bolshoi and elsewhere, choreography is embracing shorter, smaller-scale pieces, and that trend has led to a dearth of big-star roles. "People aren't choreographing for stars anymore - they're not doing Swan Lake," says Lynn Garafola, a dance historian and author of Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance. Increasingly, it's choreographers like Ratmansky who are taking their place as ballet's headliners. In one of Ratmansky's most celebrated moves, for example, in 2003 he restaged Bright Stream, the full-length ballet by radical Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which Stalin banned shortly after it premiered in Moscow...
...took a year to come up with a common-ground statement of goals: to decrease abortions, relieve the social and economic conditions that lead women to consider abortion, make adoption easier, condemn violence and keep talking. "One of the principles is the importance of factual information," says Lynn von Unwerth, a nurse at Asheville Planned Parenthood who has been attending the meetings from the start. And then she pauses: "That's something we're still wrestling with...
...Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at UCLA and a former colleague of Faust at Penn, said Faust’s Southern upbringing shaped her sense of diplomacy...
...casualties in American history. But Radcliffe has forced Faust to become something of an academic jack-of-all-trades—an asset which will help her as the University seeks to expand its science initiatives. “Radcliffe is not one department,” says Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at UCLA and a former colleague of Faust at Penn. “She knows people in just about every department on campus because they have had intersecting interests with her and people in the Radcliffe Institute.” “There?...
...supposed abrasiveness. Summers resigned last spring after a series of bruising public confrontations with members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.“If there are going to be problems they are certainly not going to be the same kind of problems,” Lynn Hunt, a professor of history at UCLA and a former colleague of Faust at Penn, said last month.A ‘SUBTLE SKILL’As president of a large and decentralized university, Faust will have to find means to build consensus among its many factions, an area in which Summers...