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...Vladikavkaz City Recruiting Center in the Russian territory of North Ossetia lies just outside the main town, through a tall, steel gate. Inside, along a small driveway overlapped by tall pines, lie a parking lot, pavilion and fruit orchard. A low, two-story concrete building with peeling paint serves as the recruiting center. Men in clean, dark green fatigues organize would-be recruits. They are mostly men in their 50s and 60s who have already served but are too old now. Lots of gray hair and mustaches, gold teeth and cigarettes...
...tunic bedecked in medals and tall black riding boots - forms to one side. One man has a curled handlebar mustache and watery pale-blue eyes. The men in this group won't talk to the press and keep walking off to stand and talk in a circle in the orchard. But one told a reporter earlier that he had come all the way from Siberia to serve in the Russian operations across the border in Georgia and its breakaway region South Ossetia. They look like a rough, hard bunch...
...leader,” Brustein said. According to Brustein, this hiring was conducted at a much slower pace than the appointment of Woodruff in 2002. “When I left the job, my successor was chosen in conference with [University] President [Neil L.] Rudenstine, [A.R.T. executive director] Rob Orchard, and myself. It was a different process, much speedier...
...A.R.T. must expand its audience,” Orchard said in an e-mail. “As the number of patrons rises so will the income from ticket sales. Moreover, with an increased audience the A.R.T. will enjoy a larger base of patrons from whom to raise funds. Diane is keenly aware of this need...
...Reviewers are praising the play for its artistic and historical sweep; allusions range from Shakespeare's King Lear to Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, and the troubled history of the Czech republic. An English version is scheduled to open in London in September...