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...called for improvements in mine safety. Wen has stayed involved in the issue, regularly expressing concern for miners and their families and once tearfully instructing officials to learn "lessons drawn in blood." Indeed, within days of the Zuoyun accident, the Premier met with rescuers and called for a thorough investigation, noting that there was evidence of collusion between local officials and mine owners to cover up the tragedy. Officials at the company running the Zuoyun mine could not be reached for comment...
Smider said he expects that beginning in the fall, the pub will be open from Wednesday evening thorough Sunday night...
...Alexei Ratmansky can see the theater site through a window. "The general atmosphere here is of something building - not falling apart," he says, his voice not much louder than the construction noise outside. He's not just talking about new upholstery on the theater's seats. A far more thorough renovation is going on, for Ratmansky is attempting to refurbish not just the Bolshoi's architecture, but its global stature as well. Once the world's pre-eminent classical dance company, the Bolshoi was in steep artistic decline when, in January 2004, Ratmansky was chosen, at age 35, to bring...
...Harvard, 3-2. Her match was the only one to reach five games, as the other players on both teams prevented their opponents from recovering. Though disappointed at the outcome, the team can enter next weekend’s Howe Cup, the national championship, with a more thorough scouting report on Penn and Princeton.Harvard entered the match unsure of what Penn’s four freshmen would present. At both the No. 2 and No. 8 positions, the Quaker freshmen defeated Blumberg and Charlene Neo respectively.With these players now scouted, the Crimson feels better prepared to face them in postseason...
...Hong Kong, Silent Witness proved a thorough professional, and despite-or because of-that cruel cut, a perfect gentleman. He never threw a tantrum, and was so laid-back that Cruz called him lazy. Proffer a carrot and he wouldn't crunch it like other horses, but nibble at it from your hand. His running style was as straightforward as his personality: bound out of the barrier, cruise to the lead or park just off it, gallop relentlessly to the line. "He had the reflexes of a springbok," says South African Felix Coetzee, the only jockey to have ridden Silent...