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...That Holiday Spirit! Midterms got you down? Wondering if Christmas still exists in the outside world? The Boston Ballet’s rendition of “The Nutcracker” should have you loving the holiday season in no time. Dec. 6 to 7, 7:30 pm. Dec. 8, 1 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Boston Opera House. Tickets start at $27.50. 4) Singing Sensations Body and Soul: The Din & Tonics and The Callbacks in their winter concert. As the tagline says, it’ll be “a night you won’t soon forget...
...Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Chvez - who had yet to lose an election since winning the presidency in 1998 - was visibly upset. Still, according to government sources, he soon checked his anger and insisted the tally would turn his way before the CNE announced the results at 10 pm. But aides knew better: one slipped into his office and began calling newspapers, asking contacts at each one to secretly hold off printing victory op-ed articles that Chvez officials had written, and the full-page ads the government had bought that hailed the triumph of his "21st-century...
...With a little help, perhaps, from his star turn with Hu, Rudd was elected PM Nov. 24. Now the former diplomat, who campaigned on slogans like "new leadership," "fresh ideas" and "a vision for the future," is preparing to redirect Australia's approach to the world. The scale of his win, the gratitude of his party and his reputation as an autocrat put Rudd on track to be the most presidential PM Australia's seen. A keen interest in foreign affairs - sparked at age 14 when then-PM Gough Whitlam became the first Western leader to visit Beijing - suggests...
...Rudd said his first move as PM would be to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. But with Australia's emissions targets already met, ratification is largely a matter of image - Aussies for a nicer, cleaner world. New leaders' first trips abroad are always scrutinized for significance. Rudd's will be to Bali Dec. 3, to attend preliminary U.N. talks on what will follow Kyoto. He said the visit "would be a way of indicating that we intend to be globally diplomatically active" on climate change. "We are sure that his attendance will have a symbolic meaning...
...Rudd's ratification of Kyoto, and the perception of an Australian withdrawal from Iraq, could seem like rebuffs of the U.S., but the new PM's next trip after Bali is expected to be to Washington, where Australia can draw on a large reservoir of goodwill accumulated during the Howard era. "I am a passionate supporter of the U.S. alliance," Rudd said during the election campaign, "but good allies of America say, Mate, this time you've got it wrong and you need to do it differently...