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Mesmera's classes resemble those taught nationwide. Even in a beginners' class, most of the 20 students wear flowing skirts in cotton or gauze and scarves adorned with coins tied low on their hips. After breathing exercises, the students are instructed to twist their hips slowly in a figure 8 while extending their arms to the side. Later come side-to-side hip sways, pelvic thrusts and serpentine torso waves done to a rhythmic drumbeat. Occasionally classes are accompanied by live percussionists, and women play finger cymbals called zills, though CDs with Middle Eastern music and singing are often used...
...year gets worse than the last," Tuyen says. Vietnam's highways now claim 1,000 lives a month, double the rate of just five years ago. It's part of the price of modernization as a newly-moneyed citizenry moves up to motorized transportation. But there's a strange twist to this familiar developing country saga. The government has started to treat motorcycles like dangerous drugs. It wants to curtail the blacktop carnage by cutting off the supply?imposing stiff import quotas on motorcycle manufacturers operating in the communist country...
PRINCETON, N.J.—With 8:51 left in the second quarter at Princeton Saturday, the Harvard football team’s quarterback controversy took a new twist when senior captain Neil Rose re-emerged as an effective and efficient signal-caller...
...Richard Harris - who died last week - as Dumbledore. Draco Malfoy (Tom Felton) and his nasty pals are still hatching nefarious plots. Production designer Stuart Craig's Diagon Alley - a teetering jumble of Tudor and Georgian magic shops - is still standing. Hogwarts Castle's mile-high central staircase continues to twist and turn according to its own whims. Columbus has included all of the book's greatest moments: Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint, 14, in whose voice you can hear the raspy effects of puberty) receives a "howler" telegram from his mother, which screams almost as loudly as the Mandrakes. He also...
Tomorrow night, Harvard bodies will twist, swirl and contort to the incendiary notes of techno beats and the virtuoso stylings of a solo bassist. And people will pack the Loeb-Ex Theater to see them. The 700 free tickets to the dance show Ex-rated were given out in days, and the wildly successful production showcases Harvard’s outstanding dance community. Harvard has an astounding 18 different student dance groups. Six hundred people each semester dance in the Office for the Arts (OFA) Dance Program. Harvard choreographers have competed masterfully in national competitions, and the dance programs rival...