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...magazine this week, senior reporter ALICE PARK profiles Long Island skater Sarah Hughes, the 16-year-old who, along with established star Michelle Kwan and the mesmerizing Sasha Cohen, completes the strongest U.S. figure-skating trio since Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding stirred hope for a medals sweep in 1992. Talk with Park about the U.S. team on Wednesday...
...women's figure-skating team heading to Salt Lake City, Hughes will be facing off with Kwan and Sasha Cohen for Olympic gold in what promises to be the most intense battle of the blades in a decade. The three make up the strongest U.S. contingent since Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding last stirred hope for a medals sweep in 1992. Yamaguchi and Kerrigan delivered, winning gold and bronze, respectively, while Harding finished fourth. "With all the girls skating so well and peaking at the right time, it certainly makes sense to talk about sweeping again this year...
...General, Ito Hirobumi, was assassinated after a four-year reign, he owned more than 1,000 pieces of celadon. The third Governor General, Masataka Terauchi, assembled 1,855 works of calligraphy, 432 books and 2,000 pieces of celadon, mirrors and other artifacts. Terauchi's collection ended up at Yamaguchi Women's University, according to Nam Yong Chang, a Japanese academic of Korean ancestry, who says only a fraction of the collection was later returned to Korea. Everybody knew what it took to get things done in the colony, says Soji Takasaki, an art history professor at Tsudajuku University near...
...first number after intermission, “Into Emptiness,” choreographed by Ryuji Yamaguchi ’03, continues to take the audience outside of the box and to lead them into more modern styles of dance. Set to minimalistic piano music by Arvo Pärt, the piece begins with various dancers walking slowly across a stage dappled with spotlights. The piece then moves into a section where three men use each other’s bodies to create lines and sculptures. A sense of complete fluidity pervades the stage, and the beauty of the men?...
...Yamaguchi and Bergmann have faith in the abilities of Harvard dancers, maintaining that the caliber of dance on campus is very high. Many student dancers, including the production staff of Against the Grain, have professional experience with companies such as The School of American Ballet and the Martha Graham School...