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...Making Nice Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's offer to hold direct talks with the leaders of Iran and North Korea gave me an idea: perhaps Obama could visit Burma and persuade General Than Shwe to accept full-scale international aid [May 26]. This would be a good warm-up exercise and would give Obama a taste of negotiating with a stubborn, psychopathic dictator. Ohn Kyaw, Withcott, Queensland...
...Through the latter half of kindergarten and first grade, the classes make about eight trips to the theater; Kevin Kline offered tips on how to fence as he did in Cyrano de Bergerac, and the cast from Spring Awakening have shared their vocal warm-up techniques. The wardrobe mistress from Wicked showed the kids where the nooks and crannies are hidden in the show's lavish costumes to allow the leading ladies to hang from ropes...
...last summer, Wang Yan, a Chinese Olympic gymnast who was competing at her national championships, fell head-first from the uneven bars and broke her neck; in 1998, another Chinese gymnast, Sang Lan, then 16 and competing at the Goodwill Games in New York City, fell while performing a warm-up vault and fractured her spine. Both athletes were paralyzed and are not likely to walk again...
...parliamentary elections were something of a warm-up for the presidential election. Another potential presidential candidate, Ali Larijani, Iran's former negotiator on its nuclear program, won a landslide victory in the city of Qom. A pragmatic conservative, he resigned from the nuclear brief last year after clashing with Ahmadinejad. Larijani had reportedly agreed to a temporary freeze of Iran's uranium-enrichment program as a good-faith gesture in talks with the West. Ahmadinejad publicly rejected the move, and the U.N. Security Council imposed three rounds of sanctions on Iran...
...League champion by blowing out Harvard on its home court in front of a sellout crowd at Newman Arena, 86-53. More than 30 minutes prior to game-time, the Big Red student section was nearly full, heckling and taunting Crimson players as they went through their warm-up routine. “This is my first time here in this facility period, and obviously with a lot riding on the game for their team, their fans were tremendous, their students were terrific,” Harvard coach Tommy Amaker said. “They had the place packed...