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...which would keep a tight rein on its finances. By the following year, the Bolshoi's estimated annual budget was substantially lower than other top ballet companies. But now, with more dancers, more productions, lavish tours and the very expensive Old Theater renovation, there's clearly millions more being thrown at the Bolshoi than before Ratmansky's arrival...
...tent, overwhelming the audience as they await the start of the show.Tim M. Gunn, “Project Runway” personality and fashion guru, sits front row center, in a fitted grey pinstripe jacket, surrounded by the who’s who of the fashion scene.Suddenly we are thrown into darkness, and the music stops. Then the lights hit the stage, the music throbs again, and the first model steps down the runway. Our pulses are likewise thrown into a state of hyper-excitement. Heads turn in sync, following each model’s graceful strut down...
...Graham contacted Harvard’s club team looking for players. Four new players—junior Vilsa Curto, who is also a Crimson editor, freshman Alejandra Duartre, senior Julia Forgie, and sophomore Rachel Gottlieb—eventually moved up to the varsity squad. Friday morning, these newcomers were thrown against one of the nation’s top teams in the Wildcats (5-0). While the Crimson (0-2) lost 5-2, the match proved the ability of Harvard’s patched together team to compete at the highest level. Playing against Kentucky’s top doubles...
...Sweden, the government has opted to protect the Iraqis arriving, citing U.N. refugee guidelines to protect those fleeing, rather than pursuing them for using forged documents to enter Sweden. "They all say, 'We had illegal passports but we have thrown them away,'" says Gunn Sundberg-Hjelm, an asylum officer at the Swedish Migration Board. Other than checking their fingerprints against international databases, there is no practicable way to prove that the Iraqis are who they say they are. "We don't turn anyone back," says Sundberg-Hjelm. "Look at the circumstances they have left...
...Biao tortured Liu's associates to make them provide false evidence.) In the spring of 1969, after nearly three years in prison, I was handcuffed and taken back to that same building where I had watched the crowd ''struggle'' against Shell's chief accountant, Tao Feng. I was half-thrown, half-dropped onto the floor. One man kept his hand on my head so that I could not look around. The other people in the room were shouting slogans demanding my downfall and destruction. ''Here she is!'' shouted the meeting's leader. ''We have brought her here so that...