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Observers say that during the course of the restoration, the theater's administration has been focusing on the reconstruction of the building and taking little interest in the artistic aspects of the revamped theater. "There is a tendency to think of the Bolshoi as a building - to think of it...
Young, Educated, Frustrated Some young Europeans are growing tired of waiting. Last year, a police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in Athens triggered weeks of riots by Greek youth. Some commentators attributed the eruption to anarchist groups, but, as elsewhere in Europe, structural flaws are just as much...
But as the hours went by, the camera began to linger, seek the children out. And in the end, when everyone--performers and preachers and family--came onstage, we got to see them and, heartbreakingly, hear them as well. "Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father...
The Catholic Church (and Pope Benedict XVI) were presented with a public-relations powder keg in March when news broke that a 9-year-old Brazilian girl underwent an abortion after she'd been raped and impregnated with twins by her stepfather. Catholics from São Paulo to Paris...
Critics claim the Sandinistas' continued faux holiday cheer - whether it be waving flags around the Christmas trees in traffic circles, or throwing rocks at the opposition - epitomizes the ruling party's intolerance and fear. Sandinistas, however, claim it's democracy in action. "In Paris, if you get a million people...