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...that the White House and Hill leadership have apparently compromised by agreeing not to make meaningful cuts in either Social Security or defense, congressional bookkeeping will almost surely become even more imaginative. Asked if the House budget was not fashioned from "smoke and mirrors," Democrat Vic Fazio of California responded not by answering, but by gloating over the G.O.P retreat on Social Security cuts. Never mind that the deficit will go on growing; just think of the political profits. Chuckled Fazio: "They'll be sucking our smoke." --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Sam Allis and Christopher Redman/Washington
Drawing the tournament’s fourth seed in Cal Poly’s Vic Moreno, Preston (23-5)—the EIWA Champion—took the senior to the limit before eventually falling in overtime...
...Vic Braden has a special talent, and it's driving him nuts. Braden, a well-known tennis coach, can tell when a player is about to double-fault before the tennis racket even meets the ball. He doesn't know how; it just comes to him in a flash. One year he watched the tournament at Indian Wells and called 16 out of 17 double faults before they happened. This freaks him out. "What did I see?" Braden wonders. "I would lie in bed thinking, 'How did I do this? I don't know.' It drove me crazy...
...popularized ballet in Britain and beyond; in Bath, England. In 1925 she became the youngest member of Ballets Russes, then the world's premiere company, and went on to work in Europe and the U.S. with such choreographers as George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton in major troupes like the Vic-Wells Ballet and the first incarnation of the American Ballet Theater. Known for her unsnobbish passion, delicacy and range, she is indelibly linked to Giselle, a role she played frequently to fervent acclaim in productions throughout the world...
...popularized ballet in Britain and beyond; in Bath, England. In 1925 she became the youngest member of Ballets Russes, then the world's premiere company, and went on to work in Europe and the U.S. with such choreographers as George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton in major troupes like the Vic-Wells Ballet and the first incarnation of the American Ballet Theater. Known for her unsnobbish passion, delicacy and range, she is indelibly linked to Giselle, a role she played frequently to fervent acclaim in productions throughout the world...