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Renowned Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya returned from six years of self-exile to the Bolshoi Theater to celebrate her 70th birthday today. She resurrected her Swan Queen from Swan Lake, the role that first brought her international fame. Plisetskaya now lives in Germany where she continues to teach and perform...
Days after the birth, Koernke joined the 70th Division (training), U.S. Army Reserve based in Livonia, Michigan. Later, as he climbed the ladder of the Patriot right, he traded heavily on his purported military-intelligence experience, calling himself an "intelligence analyst and counterintelligence coordinator" with a top-secret clearance, and afterward the commander of two "special-warfare" brigades used to "train U.S. military in foreign warfare and tactics." However, judging from a summary of his service record provided by the Army and anecdotes from soldiers familiar with him, his claims seem inflated. He did attend the Army's intelligence school...
Koernke's reaction to the job's drabness appears to have been typically inventive. An officer with the 70th recalls that, he was employed for a time devising "lanes training," a set of simple, pre-scripted troop exercises. The assignment misfired. "Koernke came up with these wildly ambitious, grandiose scenarios," says the officer. "Nobody bought them." Every year the reservists gathered for two weeks of concerted drill, and the G-2s were allowed to train briefly with active-duty troops. Koernke returned with stories of espionage derring-do that were so rococo they became the talk of his contemporaries. Says...
...Nervous Royals rookie Jon Nunnally, who then went to the plate and became the 70th player to hit a home run in his first major league atbat...
Brockelman said the governor must make his appointment to the Court by June 13, the 70th birthday of current Nolan. Massachusetts law mandates the retirement of justices...