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...Cos? Fan Tutte set on a beach. (Amelia, Jaewoo and Emma, fear not.) But when The Magic Flute opens in Sydney this week, their talents will be similarly exposed. "I wanted to make the magic of the piece human and physical," Freeman says, "rather than just stage effects...
What Markway is experiencing is a new kind of American career stage: the not-quite-retirement. As life spans lengthen, pensions tighten and workplace rules change, hopping from full-time work to full-time leisure is appearing less realistic and, to some, less desirable. The trend has given rise to a new category of employment, the so-called bridge job. Economists use this term to describe part-time or full-time jobs typically held for less than 10 years following full-time careers. According to a 2005 working paper from the Center on Aging and Work at Boston College...
...ascendant Chinese have modeled their figure-skating program?and, indeed, their entire sports system?after that of the very country they hope to dethrone. Just as the Soviet Union once measured its worth on the international stage through Olympic medals, so now does China. Coaches comb the countryside looking for suitable kids for the nation's thousands of Soviet-style sports academies, where athletes are given free training in return for intense physical devotion. Even though China has no tradition of ice and snow sports and only started competing in the Winter Olympics in 1980, it won eight medals...
...actress straddled him and thrust her hips. Rosen peeked around Berry’s shoulders at the audience—where his mom, dad, and girlfriend watched—and said, “Hi Mom.”Asked about the experience that left him tongue-tied on stage, Rosen said Berry was a good kisser.“I wasn’t because I was a little too startled to kiss back,” he said.Rosen declined to comment on whether there was tongue involved.“That was unprecedented,” Blickstead said...
...nothing to do with the fact that our most popular sports aren’t competitive on a national stage, or the fact that we’re too concerned with e-recruiting and problem sets to be bothered by an evening jaunt with a Crimson sports team...