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...Dick Cheney have spent six years expanding presidential powers at the expense of Congress and the judiciary, from authorizing domestic wiretapping to limiting habeas corpus and changing bills through signing statements. Democrats, in control of both chambers of Congress for the first time in 12 years, are determined to reclaim what they can. And the U.S. Attorneys case gives them powerful new ammunition...
...steep artistic decline when, in January 2004, Ratmansky was chosen, at age 35, to bring the troupe back from the brink of irrelevance and remake it into a cultural force befitting its heritage. It's a strategy that's risky yet necessary if the company is to reclaim its place not just as a custodian of the classics but also as an innovative producer of superlative new ballet. Ratmansky hopes that, like the Old Theater's crumbling facade, the Bolshoi's repertoire can be rebuilt - keeping what is old and beautiful while fixing its battered foundation...
...already staged his productions at the Kirov Ballet in St. Petersburg, as well as a new production of Anna Karenina in Copenhagen. His knowledge of Western dance and his strength as a choreographer were, according to Bolshoi Theater director general Anatoly Iksanov, just what the company needed to reclaim its standing in the newly modernized world of ballet. With impressive choreography credentials yet no management experience, Ratmansky assumed the helm of an organization that employs more than 200 dancers and coaches and is, this season, staging more than 200 performances at home and on tour. He also oversees the newly...
...author of the alcohol-horror movie When a Man Loves a Woman thinks he's good enough and smart enough - and doggone it, enough people like him - to be the next U.S. Senator from Minnesota. On his final Al Franken Show, he announced that he is running to reclaim the seat that Sen. Paul Wellstone lost when he, his wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash two weeks before the 2002 election, and which was won by Republican Norm Coleman. The New York City-born Franken, whose parents moved to the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park when...
...victories,” says Katey Stone, Harvard women’s hockey coach. There is only a 4-3, triple-overtime defeat at the hands of Boston College in the opening round of Boston’s hallowed Beanpot Tournament. There is only being rebuffed in trying to reclaim the trophy from the Golden Eagles, who snapped the Crimson’s string of seven straight tourney titles at Bright Hockey Center last February. And being consigned to the consolation game against lowly Northeastern, playing for third place for the first time since 1998. “There?...