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...Brink” demonstrated a much clearer emotional journey than the preceding works. As the dance opened, the dancers reached upwards but seemed weighed down by their own bodies. By the end, however, they broke whatever bonds restrained them and literally gasped in relief. The final image was one of complete release: the dancers were centered on stage, arms outstretched, as petals fell on them from above. Although “A Time Upon Once” and “Fractured” were both absorbing pieces, “On the Brink” raised the standard...
...meanwhile, staffers at the Late Show With David Letterman and Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson are breathing a sigh of relief after Letterman assured them this week that they would get paid at least through the end of the year, whether or not the shows resume production. Letterman was able to make that promise because both shows are owned by his production company, Worldwide Pants - unlike Tonight and Late Night With Conan O'Brien, which are owned...
KNOW WHOM YOU ARE TALKING TO. Vasella divides organizations into those that genuinely want a dialogue with his drug company--he mentions the famine-relief group Oxfam--and those, like many animal-rights activists, that don't. "Don't try to convert the unconvertible," he counsels. Talk to the "decent people" who respect different points of view. From the other side, Charles Secrett, executive director of Friends of the Earth UK, concedes that some activists believe talking to corporations is a sellout and only violent revolution will change the world...
...state, an Australian President, be appointed by Parliament? Or elected in a national campaign, in the American manner? The A.R.M. wanted the former, but Australians hated the idea of an American-style republic--or American-style anything--in their public life. This split the republican vote, to the boundless relief of the monarchists, who could never have carried the issue on their own. (Pollsters thought that about 70% of Australians were for a republic of some kind...
...Balkan wars may be over, put peace brought no relief for 16,000 mentally disabled children and adults in Serbia's orphanages and medical institutions, an international human rights group revealed on Wednesday. A study by the U.S.-based Mental Disability Rights International (MDRI) found that Serbia's treatment of its disabled citizens includes segregation, inhumane practices, and life-long detention in deplorable conditions. The group deemed the plight of Serbia's institutionalized disabled as torture, rather than treatment...