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...Joey is an arty, tempestuous, hot-blooded Cajun and Andrew a sweet, meek, well-organized Asian American. Joey, at the make-or-break moment of his ballet career, wins a prestigious grant to study Balinese dance and leaves Manhattan's West Village for the island with Andrew in tow, hoping to create a ballet that can make him the next Balanchine...
...blasts from the past. Former chief executive officer of CSX Corporation, a large railway and shipping company based in Richmond, Va., Snow first joined the government in the Ford administration. Although as a business leader he has stressed the importance of balancing the budget, he has recently begun to tow Bush’s policy line and has almost magically become an outspoken advocate of slashing taxes for corporations and individuals, even if that means running short-term deficits...
According to Riley, one of the four acutely intoxicated students transported by ambulance that day nearly died when the thick mud on the intramural fields trapped an ambulance, a tow truck and a police cruiser that were all sent in to rescue the convulsing student...
...future. Charity Bell is one of the exceptions, a 28-year-old student at the Kennedy School of Government and an emergency foster care parent. Bell has cared for 45 babies in the past five years, and can regularly be seen around campus with a baby in tow, who she brings to class. “It was most stunning for me to get to the Kennedy School and realize how little people knew about foster care, that there are kids out there with no place to go,” she says. “For us, for future...
...Prestige sink? Theories include the extreme weather conditions, a collision with floating debris, structural problems, metal fatigue and miscalculations in the salvage effort. The Dutch salvage firm Smit, which handled the attempted rescue of the ship, is locked in a battle of words with Spain. "We asked to tow the ship to a safe place on the Spanish coast, where we could repair it in calm waters," says a Smit spokesman. "But the Spanish authorities refused." The Spanish say they feared damage would be greater if the leaking vessel - chartered by Swiss-based Crown Resources AG, part of the Russian...