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...teams have the best of both worlds: they receive funding from the Department of Athletics, yet practice at venues supported by the Office for the Arts at Harvard. Their craft involves rules, competition, intense training, self-control, and teamwork—like many other sports—while also allowing for self-expression on a more sophisticated level than pure competitive drive. The Crimson Dance Team and Harvard Ballroom Dance Team fuse athletic competition with artistic interpretation, in a unique hybrid of art and sport...
Dance teams are judged on various, partly subjective, criteria: technique, difficulty, passion, creativity, style, ability to communicate emotion, clarity, control, synchronization, and musicality—all of which highlight the hybrid aspects of the art. In ballroom, there are four principal aspects: musicality, beauty and technique, partnering, and speed and power. Musicality—or a dancer’s capacity to interpret the music through motions that fit the mood and rhythm—shifts these competitive dances from a sport to an art form. A competitive dancer should not just be robotically performing moves; there needs...
...main threats to stability now, says Quinn-Judge, is a rift in the ruling government, which lacks a charismatic leader and "is not speaking with one voice." The more hard-line elements in their ranks are calling for harsh methods to gain full control of the country and put Bakiyev on trial. "I very much hope the regime is not going to move against him. The last thing a very fledgling and inchoate regime needs is to start relying on shooters," Quinn-Judge said by phone from Bishkek. Whether the opposing forces turn to violence or not, Kyrgyzstan is still...
...What gives Republicans hope that they can take back control of Congress and beat Obama in 2012 is the widespread perception that the President, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid are hell-bent on increasing Washington's reach. The victory of Scott Brown in January's Massachusetts Senate race has made it an article of faith that Republicans can gain back the majority on Capitol Hill primarily by emphasizing government expansion, deficit spending and the threat of higher taxes. Republicans now also believe a challenge to the Administration's foreign policy acumen can serve...
Meanwhile, India's armed forces are not anxious to join the fight. The new Indian army chief, General V.K. Singh, has blamed the lack of training and tactics in jungle warfare as well as command and control for the loss of the 76 troopers. He ruled out any role of the military - that is, the security forces of India's federal government - in the ongoing operation. "The Naxalite problem is a law and order problem, which is a state subject. It stems from certain issues on the ground, be it of governance, be it of administration, be it of socioeconomic...