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...years, the Waifish Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova entranced critics with her quick, intense energy and poetic style in classic and contemporary productions, including Giselle, Swan Lake and Spartacus. In 1995 she took on another role when her husband, Bolshoi artistic director Yuri Grigorovich, quit amid a dispute with management over plans for his replacement. Bessmertnova and her fellow dancers refused to perform for a night. The historic strike caused the company's first cancellation in more than two centuries. She was 66 and reportedly had kidney trouble...
...think that you have met a really fun-loving English guy who really enjoys your love of Edwardian drama but is actually imaginary and you have been writing letters to the CIA. It seems fun now, but will only lead to unfulfilling dreams of Ed Harris in the future. Quit while you’re still ahead. –Rebecca M. Harrington can be reached at harring@fas.harvard.edu...
...Three years after beginning her work at the CIA, McCulla was ready to quit her day job and move into cooking full-time. Following her husband, Brian D. Goldstein ’04, who is pursuing a Ph. D. in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, McCulla returned to Cambridge. Fortuitously, McCulla came back to her alma mater just as Jessica Zdeb, the former FLP coordinator, was leaving to become an organic farmer in France...
...Wars of the '90s. Then Montenegro declared independence in 2006. Kosovo seceded from Serbia last Sunday, and now the northern region of Kosovo wants to secede and rejoin Serbia. I don't have a dog in this latest fight - or even understand it much - but if someone wants to quit the firm, it seems to me you ought to let him go. The tension arises, of course, because the ones eyeing the door usually want to take a pile of the firm's assets along with them. And you do have to question where this will end. Will some family...
Mohammed Alomari, a director for the Southfield, Michigan-based organization LIFE for Relief and Development says his organization sent its last expatriate staff member home from Iraq in 2005; a local program director was killed in 2006. "Others have been threatened. Others have quit and fled the country," says Alomari. Finding qualified staff to replace those who have fled, he says, is a major challenge...