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...contender who seems to most flutter the Liberals' hearts--and those of their Bay Street backers--hasn't yet entered the field. Former New Brunswick Premier Frank McKenna made front-page headlines when he resigned last week as U.S. ambassador, a step observers consider a prelude to his long-expected return to politics after sojourns in diplomacy and corporate life. But despite having been elevated by default into the front runner's slot, McKenna, 58, has given no hint of his plans. "He's interested in public life," says a confidant. "But running for the leadership would mean...
...hardly surprising then that no one seemed especially perturbed when the now-defunct 9-11 Commission issued a ?report card? on our Homeland Security that would have gotten your average fourth grader busted back to the third grade. All those ?D?s and ?F?s and hardly a flutter of interest from the public at large. Heavy sigh...
...first, the video appears to be the latter. In self-consciously amateurish animation (with the aesthetic of a hastily-assembled Flash project), brightly-colored creatures dance, birds flutter about, and flowers, rainbows, snowflakes, and polka-dots abound. There are even little animated penguins in funny hats, for God’s sake. It made the long-presumed-dead girly part of my brain come alive with cries of “Awwww” and “Eeeeeee!” It is Cute...
Youngsters who became stars, like Suzanne Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland, flutter through these pages, but the book is mostly a skillful portrait of the mercurial, infinitely resourceful Kirstein, who is still active, and the half a dozen or so teachers who dominate the curriculum. Listening to them is like sitting around the samovar. Alexandra Danilova, 81 and going strong; Antonina Tumkovsky, a strict classicist, in her fourth decade at the school; the ebullient Andrei Kramarevsky, a more recent immigrant--all speak with characteristic Russian vividness and disdain for the article as a part of speech...
...laws of physics insist that work must move things: A pushes against B, and B moves. What, besides paper, does the columnist move? He wonders that himself. Swiveling in his chair, he catches hummingbirds, bats, butterflies in flutter, pins them to the wall and whispers, "Gotcha." But he doesn't. Today Gaddafi, tomorrow the Chicago Bears. Call this history? Come Thursday, no one will remember how right he was on Tuesday, and the facts may have altered to prove that he was wrong on Tuesday after all, but who will remember that either? Twenty years after his death, maybe...