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After a 23-hour flight from Sydney, the Australian dancers LISA PAVANE, 33, and GREG HORSMAN, 31, were ready for sleep in their London flat. Then the phone rang. Midway through the English National Ballet's Swan Lake, the prima ballerina was injured. Pavane and Horsman--they're married and not the star- crossed lovers they dance in Romeo and Juliet, above--were summoned. The two E.N.B. principals rushed by taxi to Royal Festival Hall as the audience waited. They leaped into Act III. ``It was,'' says Pavane, who whipped through the Black Swan's famously difficult 32 fouettes...
...speech to the Diet, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama pledged that his government would ``waste no time in taking every necessary fiscal and financial measure'' to help rebuild the devastated area. But when he suggested that the relief effort had faltered because of the quake's unprecedented severity, loud jeers rang out from the opposition benches. It was widely reported that Murayama had learned of the disaster only two hours after it struck. When he toured Kobe, Tokyo papers featured quotes from angry residents, along the lines of ``We don't need Murayama. We need drinking water...
...same sentiments rang through Moscow. Dread of a prolonged guerrilla war that might not be confined to Chechnya -- the rebels have threatened terrorist attacks on Russian nuclear-power stations -- united communists, leaders of the once pro-Yeltsin Russia's Choice party and many other politicians in condemnation of the invasion. Vladimir Zhirinovsky's ultranationalists were the only major faction to voice even tepid support...
Yesterday in Harvard Square, Salvation Army bell-ringers rang away, lights glittered on trees and strings suspended above the streets, and shoppers rushed home with their new-bought treasures...
...fire alarm rang through the Science Center late yesterday morning, interrupting exams in two lecture halls and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of students and professors...