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Several appealing versions of The Nutcracker exist on film or videotape. An especially familiar one is the American Ballet Theatre's 1977 production, a TV holiday staple starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gelsey Kirkland, both in their radiant prime. But Balanchine's remains the standard. His hero and heroine are children, and the first act contains a party scene that is the heart of the piece. Deftly and smoothly, it teaches a timeless lesson in deportment: how a child's natural greed and anger are coaxed into poise and good manners...
...Global Forum in Kyoto, Mikhail Gorbachev talked with TIME senior writer Eugene Linden...
...into the breach strides Mikhail Gorbachev, who is once again a man with a mission. Helping end the cold war and pushing for democratic reform in Russia were simple compared with the new challenge he has taken up. As president of the International Green Cross/Green Crescent, a private organization intended to help coordinate global environmental initiatives, Gorbachev hopes to do nothing less than spearhead a drive to save the planet...
...only Washington couple whose careers are brilliantly synergistic. Here's a list of some of the others, ranked by their GorbScore, a rating from 1 to 10 derived from a formula that measures the couple's influence and charm, using as a benchmark the models of modern power partnership, Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev...
...young Marxists are advocating economic change before political change -- the path the Chinese insist they are taking, in contrast to the approach favored by Mikhail Gorbachev when he ran the Soviet Union. "Communist parties around the world have faced our same dilemma, the sequence of reform," says Monreal. "In Cuba's case, the choice was to promote economic reform first. That will transform the state." The yummies admit that major alterations in the political system are unlikely anytime soon. "How can you open up political reform while the economy is a mess? It's suicidal," argues political scientist Santiago Perez...