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...signing up to the treaty. Like most countries, the British government did not hold a referendum, and the government signed up to the treaty on our behalf. Little wonder then that many Europeans remain uninterested in these new positions, and that senior politicians in European countries have not put themselves forward for appointment. Foreign policy run by the E.U.? No thank you. If you are looking for the E.U. to act as a major political bloc at the international negotiating table, I think that you will have a long wait...
When Twyla Tharp was 8 years old, her family moved from rural Indiana to a small town near San Bernardino, Calif., and opened a drive-in movie theater. Tharp's mother, an accomplished pianist, had put her precocious daughter through the usual cultural paces--lessons in ballet and tap as well as several musical instruments--but the family movie palace is where Tharp got her first real feel for an audience. She'd work at the snack bar and sit in a junked car way up front to watch the movies--westerns, musicals, horror-film fright fests on Friday...
...Balanchine were working, companies such as the Joffrey Ballet and Alvin Ailey were drawing hip new audiences, and stars like Baryshnikov were celeb-magazine fodder. Instead, it has glided into the mass-audience mainstream. Broadway shows like Billy Elliot and Fela! (the Afrobeat musical choreographed by Bill T. Jones) put dance front and center. The ballet-like triple axels of Olympic figure skaters drew huge ratings at the Winter Games. And TV hits like Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance have given ballroom dancing a cachet it hasn't had since Fred Astaire hung...
Every year, millions of business owners agree to put their personal assets on the line. "Even a business with a solid balance sheet may be required to have a personal guarantee," says Therese Franzén, an Atlanta lawyer and chair of the American Bar Association's consumer-financial-services committee. The hope, of course, is that your business will thrive and you'll pay down the loan just as you would a mortgage.(See how to plan for retirement...
...Osama bin Laden rather than capture and interrogate him. But Holder says he's adhering to principles he adopted over the years as an unforgiving criminal prosecutor. And it's Holder's experience in the law-enforcement system that makes him such a strong believer in its ability to put terrorists like KSM away forever. "We should have great faith in the resilience of our systems, the resilience of our people, the toughness that has always separated Americans from other peoples in this world, and that's what's made this country great," he says...