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...stop training for seven weeks to join a cello group, he was neither saying that music is inferior to athletics nor that athletes are uninterested in other activities. Skey’s comment meant only that no one could become an active member of an orchestra in a mere seven weeks...
...Back to Bach,” the two newly-premiered pieces he choreographed, Mateo is as much working within the classical idiom of épaulement, glissade and ballotté as with the vocabulary of modern choreographers like Martha Graham. Mateo says his choreography moves beyond a mere extension of the tradition to translate “the intrinsic arrogance and aloofness of ballet” into that which is accessible to contemporary audiences of all “ethnic and economic backgrounds...
...addition to students from Harvard’s Law School, Business School and the College, a number of professors have faced puzzlingly long waits for travel visas which once took mere days to obtain...
...Hyatt 1984 but the traditional French fare is superb. A meal for two--succulent pigeon de Sologne, excellent fish and a youngish Chateauneuf-du-Pape--costs north of $300. East-West fusion is represented by the fashionable Uley, which serves rack of lamb and Chilean sea bass, but a mere pot of green tea there will set you back $20. Another chic place is Syr (Russian for cheese), whose decor suggests the inside of a Swiss cheese and which in spite of that has very good Italian food...
...differences of opinion between Americans and Europeans on Iraq, civil liberties or the role of the U.N. stem from different approaches to international politics, not from different values. They are mere squabbles among people committed to promoting democracy, pluralism, and good governance. And once we all recognize and respect that shared commitment, we’ll be able to tackle the war on terrorism—and all the democratization challenges embedded in that struggle—all the more forcefully...