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Misa Kuranaga may be a tiny little thing, but she is an absolute spitfire. At 10 years old, she was personally invited by legendary director of Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet, Yuri Grigorovich, to come perform at the star-studded Moscow International Ballet Competition Gala Performance. After winning a Scholarship at the famed Prix de Lausanne, she went on to study at the School of American Ballet (SAB) and win her own gold medal at the Moscow International Ballet Competition eight years later. After joining the Boston Ballet in 2003, Kuranaga has risen up through the ranks...
...more thing, Emma,” he said to me, gravely. “Men are dogs. You might think you have one on a short leash, but that doesn’t mean he’s not sniffing around other places. It’s always better to wrap it up.” He passed me a paper bag full of condoms...
...spirit of down-home Americana. In “Window-Shopping,” a broken-hearted man stares into the windows of a “haberdashery.” In “Overwintering”, a man looking at “all the lovely things of this world” looks first at apples. Yet this combination of the everyday and the American is lost in an endless barrage of imagery that typically rings false. If a first rule of paint-by-numbers poetry is distinctive images, Nilsson appears to have taken this rule to heart...
...have always faced reduction to a single symbolic body part, especially when they make an effort to appear both strong and feminine. Beyoncé—she of the reflective fabrics, hair extensions, and mis-accented given name and, of course, The Booty—knows a thing or two about navigating the waters between independence and the expected level of feminine passivity. For Beyoncé (at least publicly) being a woman is a complicated charge, so difficult to navigate that it is often easier to section parts of herself off from the whole rather than try to keep...
...State regulation, protection, and intervention do not necessarily mean economic isolation from the rest of the world. But, when faced with a choice, we should certainly favor regulation over protectionism. If strong global regulation doesn’t happen, then the most sensible thing for many countries will be to shelter themselves from the rest of the world...