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...Nearby, the 29 rooms at the Hotel de la Opera, www.hotelopera.com.co, feature 14-ft. (4 m) ceilings and décor befitting the hotel's origins in a pair of adjoining 19th century townhouses. In its vicinity are the Teatro Colon, tel: (57-1) 284 7420 - a gold-encrusted, neo-Italianate 135-year-old performance venue that is home to the Colombian National Symphony Orchestra - and Artesanias de Colombia, www.artesaniasdecolombia.com.co, a government-sponsored showcase for handmade masks, pottery, jewels, carpets and other Colombian handiwork...
...Monday, at the Red Shirts' makeshift headquarters in the shadow of Bangkok's neo-Italianate Government House, protest leader Jatuporn vowed to continue his crusade until Abhisit leaves office. "Once the army kills the Red Shirts, then the Red Shirts will rise up and fight," he told TIME as a group of protesters with badges that read "Red Guards" nodded in agreement. "It's not my plan to make violence like this, but our people will stand up and fight...
...America was Diaghilev’s fateful acquisition of a new, young choreographer named George Balanchine, who would later come to America and revolutionize ballet with the founding of the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet and a style of movement totally new neo-classical, despite its Imperial roots. This one man would transform American dance forever.The symposium features a starry list of illustrious guest speakers, panelists, and moderators that includes Joan Acocella, staff writer for The New Yorker; Anna Kisselgoff, former chief dance critic at the New York Times; former New York City Ballet dancer...
...argues that the rise in unemployment has nothing to do with the death of 14 Central Asian migrant workers in Russia in January. "The number of deaths is lower than the same time last year," she points out. Instead, she says, the financial crisis "is just an excuse for neo-Nazi groups to kill immigrants." She points out that another wave of killings of Central Asian workers began well before the financial crisis hit, in the latter part of 2008. "Early last year, we were getting reports of Central Asian workers killed, almost daily...
...attention to the problem of violence against Central Asians. "I have received so many e-mails, especially in June of last year. But now I am very worried," admits Kozhevnikova. On Feb. 8, just before a conference on violence in Moscow, Kozhevnikova received an anonymous e-mail from a neo-Nazi group. "It said that for them, it would be more effective to kill people like me, or to kill journalists, than it is to kill immigrants. They said that they might kill me at the conference." She still attended. But, she says, "I am very cautious...