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...married. "In the American tango, everyone does it the same way," says Choreographer Copes, 54, who also dances in the show. "But in Argentina, everyone feels different. It's like love between a couple: some are sweet, some sensuous, some fighting." He has been dancing with his own partner, Mar??a Nieves, 48, for 32 years, during nine of which they were husband and wife. Even after their divorce, they-continued working together. "The two of us dance as one person; the tango is not male and female, but their union as a couple...
...originally scheduled for five weeks, has been extended at least through New Year's, and after New York, Tango will make an extensive North American tour. The dancers want the whole world to love those crazy steps. "The tango is the star of the show," asserts Elvira Santa Mar??a, 56. "We've come to prevent it from dying." Judging from audiences' ecstatic reaction to those furious feet, it will have a long, if strenuous, life. --By Gerald Clarke. Reported by Elaine Dutka/New York
Nicaraguan historian and former Sandinista leader Dora Mar??a Téllez declined a visiting professorship this spring at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) after the U.S. State Department denied her a visa for her alleged role in “terrorist activities...
...polls from the six months leading up to Spain’s national election—including those taken as late as last week—Mariano Rajoy looked certain to coast to victory. The handpicked successor of outgoing Prime Minister José Mar??a Aznar, Rajoy ran on a strong antiterrorism platform; but after the recent bombings in Madrid, fear and suspicion gripped the country and Spaniards swept Socialist leader José Luis RodrÃguez Zapatero into victory. If we didn’t know it before, this weekend’s election in Spain provided...
Those words come from a statement released by blind Cuban lawyer Juan Carlos González Leiva this past July. Through his wife, Mar??tza Calderin Columbié, he has been smuggling out such messages ever since his incarceration in March 2002. In his most recent letter, dated Sept. 16, he reports that prison officials are “releasing chemical or biological substances [in his cell]…that are making me progressively very...