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...American Ballet Theatre's Swan Lake is better than the Kirov's capricious version in both concept and execution. With one exception: the Russian troupe's marvelously schooled corps de ballet in the so-called white act. With 30 women moving as a single impulse, a single exhalation of breath (A.B.T. has 24), the scene is rapturous and mesmerizing: unforgettable. It also shows that the Kirov is still capable of supreme classical dancing. Every troupe must refresh itself with innovation, but the evidence from New York is that with the classics, the company should trust its heritage and count...
Twenty-five years ago this past April, America and the world held their collective breath: three astronauts, their spacecraft crippled by an explosion that depleted their oxygen supply, circled the moon in a desperate effort to return home safely...
...room he once could not find his way out of. And thus this week it will fall to him to guide through the full Senate the biggest effort to deregulate the $250 billion communications industry since the breakup of AT&T in 1984. Lawmakers and lobbyists are holding their breath to see whether the man they consider the Forrest Gump of legislators is up to the task. Others aren't taking any chances. Senate majority leader Bob Dole has assigned Senator Larry Craig of Idaho to help coordinate Republican amendments on the sweeping measure, a job usually reserved...
...arrest brought the first spell of relief from the fear that had gripped Japan for two months. The nation had been holding its breath, worried that another horror would occur before police built their case against Aum. On May 5 a cleaning woman in Tokyo's sprawling Shinjuku station found a hydrogen-cyanide gas bomb before it went off. The device had been placed near a ventilation duct that would have spread the gas quickly. It was potent enough to have killed 10,000 people...
...peace. Right now the Bosnian Serbs control 70% of Bosnian territory. The so-called Contact Group -- he U.S., Britain, Russia, France and Germany -- has a plan that requires the Serbs to reduce their share of the land to 49%. They have shown little interest. "We're not holding our breath for the Serbs to accept [the Contact Group plan] as the 'basis' for talks, the 'starting point' or anything else," says a top Administration official...