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...ballet that began the reign of Romantic ballet, “La Sylphide,” also began the Boston Ballet’s 2007-2008 season at the Wang Theatre. Due to its brevity, the piece was paired with and preceded by Balanchine’s groundbreaking “Serenade.” With its simple elegance and timeless plot, “Serenade” was, of the two pieces, the true gem, outshining “La Sylphide” in its choreography (by Sorella Englund after August Bournonville) and performance...

Author: By Giselle Barcia, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Serenade’ Provides Stunning Debut for Boston Ballet | 10/28/2007 | See Source »

...life sentence, it was surprisingly brief. Only six weeks after being convicted of plundering an estimated $15 million from public coffers during his two-year reign, deposed former President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada today walked out of the posh estate where he has been under house arrest, pardoned by the woman who replaced him, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. "There is no substitute for freedom," Estrada told reporters upon his release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manila Pardons a Former President | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

...trips to serenade the young ladies of the Boston area.According to a Time Magazine article from March 29, 1943, their lantern-lit jaunts took Pierian members from Brattle Street to Beacon Hill. The HRO website quotes orchestra records from 1840:“It came to pass in the reign of Simon the King, that the Pierians did meet in the tabernacle. And lo! A voice was heard saying, Let us go serenading and they lifted up their voice as one man and they said, Let us go. And behold we went to the city of the Philistines...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 200 | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...Then prompt no more the follies you decry, / As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; / ‘Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence / Of rescu’d Nature, and reviving Sense; / To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, / For useful Mirth, and salutary Woe / Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, / And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Arts On Top...for the First Time? | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...parliament in Switzerland's national elections on Sunday, is outlining what he sees as the country's most urgent problem. "Switzerland is one of the strongest democracies in Europe, and yet one in five people cannot vote," says Katumba, whose father fled Uganda to Switzerland during Idi Amin's reign of terror, when Andrew was 3. "We are not integrating foreigners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immigration Dominates Swiss Vote | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

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