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...oversized LCD screens, a parade of aspiring teenage pop stars took to the stage at Kiev's Palace of Sport on Saturday night hoping to win European hearts - and televotes. A 13-year-old from Belarus rapped about a rabbit, backed by Gregorian chants. A troupe of Dutch teenagers tap-danced while wearing garish blue-and-pink, cheetah-print dinner jackets. And, much to the delight of the 7,000-strong audience, a Ukrainian schoolboy was wheeled out on a wagon filled with hay and back-up vocalists as his female dancers did back-flips. In folk dresses...
...Good thing. This year's trophy went to Ralf Mackenbach, a tap dancer from the Netherlands, who was asked by a German journalist at the winner's press conference if he would have time to perform on German variety shows in the coming months. The 14-year-old didn't miss a beat: "We'll make time...
While “Seven Seas of Rhye” was loud and boisterous, Driscoll’s choreography to The Cordettes’ “Mr. Sandman” was an excellent example of the beauty of slower, exacting, and quieter tap-dancing. Driscoll, Kurdyla, and Wruble performed tight tap rhythms that counterbalanced the choreography’s whimsical use of gestures such as yawning, stretching, and falling asleep. The three dancers precisely and calmly complemented the mellow song with their footwork, infusing the piece with effervescence without being overbearing...
...economists believe that the longer Beijing keeps the stimulus tap open, the greater the danger that the good times in Chinese real estate could turn ugly. Louis Kuijs, a China economist at the World Bank in Beijing, commented in early November that even though Chinese policymakers may not need a "major tightening" right away, "risks of asset price bubbles and misallocation of resources in the face of high liquidity need to be mitigated." Kuijs concluded that "the overall monetary stance will have to be tightened eventually." Beijing's big test is to make sure that doesn't happen too early...
...July, after chief police detective Susno Duadji was caught speaking to a corruption suspect on a KPK phone tap, the police have been trying to discredit the group. On Oct. 29, two KPK commissioners, Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Samad Rianto, were arrested on charges of abuse of authority and taking bribes. Several days later, with public demand growing for an investigation, SBY established a special team of academics, lawyers and a former police official to "verify the facts" surrounding the case...