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...Boston Ballet usually offers enchanting and accomplished dance. Yet, while its current production starts out on a hopeful note with Gerald Arpino’s slight and appealing Suite Saint-Saëns, it is unable to sustain momentum through the headliner, Bruce Wells’ heavily anticipated A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Both shows are strongly choreographed and well-staged dramatically, but Midsummer ultimately disappoints due to an inexperienced cast of dancers unsuited to the material...
There could also be stepped-up public surveillance. At last year's Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla., law-enforcement officials secretly scanned spectators' faces with surveillance cameras and instantly matched their faceprints against photographs of suspected terrorists and known criminals in computerized databases. Facial-recognition technology might help, says Bruce Hoffman, vice president for external affairs at the Rand Corp. and a former adviser to the National Commission on Terrorism, but mostly after the fact, during an investigation. And that means storing all the face data collected, something civil libertarians fear will allow the government to track any individual...
...estimates for how long it will take to dig it all out are measured in months: one, three, more. The first few weeks alone could cost $200 million. "What makes this so labor intensive is that you can't cut through the debris with heavy equipment," says Bruce Baughman, director of operations for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "The last thing you want to do is go in with a front-end loader and come out with a victim...
...flirtatious as any 62-year-old man could be under the same circumstances--that is, until I looked in the mirror the first day they let me wobble to the bathroom and saw a vision of my own grandfather there. Talk about shrinking your libidinous urge! BRUCE GORDON Nanaimo...
...pink-slip-and-a-six-pack populist anger. But they were also one of the few acts in recent years to crack the charts with an unfiltered political message. They were, in their words, "calm like a bomb." Even higher-profile, socially conscious artists like Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen have seemed increasingly like museum docents in their recent work, curating the legacy of '30s-era populism...