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...when Disney signals that "Nightline" is a goner, it commits the faux pas of reminding all journalists of our own job insecurity. We take that personally. We're indignant to learn that anyone might run Disney like what it is: a company in business to make money. (Dedicated to the bottom line! Have they no shame?!) By the weekend, one commentator after another insinuated that Disney was doing something insidious by going after Letterman for "ratings" or "advertising dollars," as if there was something inherently immoral in TV - unlike any other business - about succeeding on that business' own terms...
...production’s marriage of acting and dancing is perfectly balanced. After Giselle has been formally converted into a Wili, she encounters Count Albrecht at her grave and the two dance a pas de deux of regret and longing on Count Albrecht’s part and of cautious forgiveness on Giselle’s part. The lifts of the pas de deux are breathtaking in their fluidity and perfect line. Ponomarenko’s extensions during promenade defy gravity...
...Once there, it wasn't the pas de deux but the flashy athleticism that turned him on. Huang was a diligent, award-winning student but, upon finishing his schooling, he stopped following the rules. On a trip to Hong Kong he had an epiphany. "I noticed that Taiwanese dancers had very strong, traditional Chinese roots," he says. "Hong Kong, even though it is Chinese, has a lot of Western influence. Then I looked at my own group?we were jumping and spinning but had no direction. I wanted to change that...
...good measure, the terror attacks have strengthened Mahathir's own crackdown on militant Islamic groups at home. At the beginning of August, police arrested 10 members of the Malaysian Mujahideen Group, which they say is headed by the son of the PAS spiritual leader, alleging they were responsible for a range of crimes, including bank robberies, assassinations and bombings of churches and Hindu temples. At the time, some opposition leaders accused Mahathir of manufacturing the terrorism bogey to undermine his political enemies. The more recent arrests of six other alleged militants have raised not a murmur of protest. "People feel...
...While most political leaders in the Islamic world are struggling to cope with the repercussions of the terror strikes in the U.S., the fallout from the attacks has played entirely in Mahathir's favor. Not only has PAS lost ground, but the opposition alliance that scarred UMNO badly in elections two years ago has collapsed, its component parties in disarray. Only a few months ago, senior UMNO members acknowledged privately that Mahathir's personal unpopularity over the Anwar affair could cause a disastrous plunge in support among the party's core constituency, the indigenous Malay Muslims who make up about...