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Fast-forwarded or merely strict, the pace is a challenge to the dancers, particularly the ballerina who plays the heroine, Princess Aurora. She must appear to be a quicksilver sprite, but with only one intermission, the role is brutal. Of the five alternating ballerinas, the radiant Darci Kistler best maintained the illusion that she had just thought up these steps and was dancing them for the first time. Kyra Nichols stood out for the moral quality, essential in a fairy tale, that she brought to the part...
Because the 911 system can never be abandoned -- woe to the mayor of any city in which the police cannot be summoned quickly during a break-in -- many departments are looking at ways to cut down on the number of calls. In the Denver suburb of Aurora, where only about a fourth of an estimated 190,000 calls each year are for real emergencies, police operators perform "911 triage." Where appropriate, they direct nonemergency callers to other city agencies. Police officers take the less urgent crime reports over the phone...
...ingrained the mentality that a stolen bike will bring an officer to your doorstep quickly," says Aurora division chief Ronald Sloan. "That has to change...
...system in which the number of arrests made is no longer the mark of success, new yardsticks will be needed to measure individual performance for promotions. "It's hard to measure what doesn't happen in an area," says Aurora's Sloan. One proposal is to look at achieved reductions in the crime rate. Police unions are sure to resist that idea, which would make officers answerable for the countless variables beyond their control -- everything from a local recession to a summer heat wave -- that can lead to increased crime...
Salesman Ventura refuses to comment, but others who hawked junk for First Investors are less reticent about the company's high-pressure tactics. "I feel like a prostitute," confesses one of them, Mark Loncar, 27, of Aurora, Ill. "But I didn't know any better...