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...very pure and trusting and in the end very strong, and a man who's made a great mistake' ... It's a simple enough story: Giselle, a frail young peasant girl, [goes mad and] dies after she finds out that her lover Albrecht?who is from a much higher rung on the social ladder?has deceived her ... Prima ballerinas want to dance Giselle. It's a part that can make or break careers ... 'It's considered the same as Hamlet is considered for the Shakespearean actor,' says Dame Alicia Markova, a former prima ballerina who in 1960 wrote a book...
...announced the new policy on junk food, to be implemented when school began in August. Combs has made adjustments over the months since, backing down on a ban on sweets at birthday parties and allowing bake sales--although students can't eat their purchases until the last bell has rung. And while kids can still bring whatever they want for lunch from home--"If you want to send deep-fat-fried Twinkies every day, that's your business," says Combs--no sharing is allowed...
...only thrust during dance numbers, and the audience knew that romance would be followed by marriage. But in the past two years, Bollywood has shed its modesty. While the movies are still tame by Western standards, new films portray promiscuity, prostitution, gay relationships, and some-although not all-have rung chimes at the box office. A quick guide to how Bollywood has discovered...
...spring after Fitzpatrick’s injury-marred junior season—which saw the Crimson drop two of the games he didn’t start to low-rung Ivy opponents—Murphy approached his new captain with a proposition...
...then, there’s always the fact that even if Yale were able to defy all odds and climb that insurmountable last rung on the ladder of success, it would still pale in comparison to its Cantabrigian rival. Though sometimes it takes the fun out of competition, we Harvard students simply can’t help that preeminence comes naturally to us. And with an undefeated football team this year—not to mention the only undefeated team in Division I-AA—the prospects for losing with dignity look especially grim for our dogged visitors...