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Adriana Suarez is quite possibly one of the greatest things ever to happen to the Boston Ballet. Her dignified elegance shone in "Glazounov Classique," the preview selection to last spring's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." She sparkled as the soloist in "Passage," the world-premiere conclusion to this fall's "Boogie, Brass and Blue." And now, once again, she combines beauty and strength with fiery fervor on the stage of the Wang Center, this time as the lead role in "Carmen...
...dinner for business executives seemed like just another effort to lend star quality to one of Bill Clinton's ambitious fund-raising ventures. But to Alan Solomont, a Massachusetts nursing-home mogul who was host to the June 3 event in Washington, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shone brightest of all. A few weeks before the dinner, Solomont had visited Shalala with a team of lobbyists to press for less stringent enforcement of nursing-home regulations. Solomont, a leading Democratic fund raiser and an occasional jogging partner of Clinton's, kept on lobbying throughout the campaign...
...keynote address delivered at the same convention by Indiana Governor Evan Bayh shone the national spotlight on a topic that epitomizes the schism of philosophy in this year's presidential election: "In this election, no issue more clearly defines the differences between the two major parties and their nominees than education...
...emerged bloodied but just ahead on points. Atlanta had faced its share of biblical afflictions--rain and thunder, explosions far and near, a plague of journalists and the smell of lucre. Yet the stars raved about the crowds as much as the crowds raved about the stars, the venues shone, the volunteers (mostly) smiled and the athletes never failed us. Simply put, the sports were thrilling...
Famous around school for her mohawk that was pink one day, orange the next, and for her sense of style, Amber "is funny, easy to get along with," says Clarissa Muzzy, still speaking of her friend in the present tense. "She listens to people and speaks her mind." She shone in English class, where, not incidentally, just before her death she had taken the role of Juliet in a class reading. In a two-page autobiography she wrote just a couple of weeks before she died, she said she wanted to be a marine biologist and that the thing...