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...Alonsos created a company steeped in the classical disciplines of French, Italian and especially Russian ballet. To fill its ranks, they started a tuition-free school with satellite academies in every province of the country. They scoured local schools and sports camps for young talent, regardless of the student's background. Graduates who didn't become performers became teachers. The result, as Alonso says, is "a Cuban school of ballet that is appreciated all over the world...
...obtaining nuclear weapons, the country won't suspend its research program as a bargaining step in negotiations with other countries over its nuclear program and that the threat of sanctions will have no influence. In this interview conducted in his Tehran office before Sunday's announcement of an Iranian-Russian agreement on a Russian proposal to establish a joint uranium enrichment program in Russia for Iran's future nuclear power plants, Larijani says such a deal would not in itself end the standoff...
...generation ago, during the Soviet era, defectors like Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev and Natalia Makarova were galvanizing the dance world. Russian dancers and the historic tradition they sprang from were the gold standard in international ballet. Today, however, the buzz is all about Latins...
...Miami City ballets are Latins. American Ballet Theatre (A.B.T.) features so many that one of its principals says it "should be called Latin Ballet Theatre." Lynn Garafola, a dance historian at Barnard College, summed up the shift in a Dance Magazine article whose headline proclaimed LATIN IS THE NEW RUSSIAN...
...Olympics," Pescante said, "are different from a bicycle race." Some athletes, however, like the idea of criminalizing doping. Canadian cross-country skier Beckie Scott, who finished third in the women's 5-km pursuit at Salt Lake City but was boosted into the gold medal position after two Russian skiers were thrown out, told Time: "Personally I think it [Italy's law] is a good thing, making it a criminal act and making it illegal. It's fighting fire with fire." For the moment, the Olympics have no way to standardize treatment of doping across borders. If China or Canada...