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...Alonsos created a company steeped in the classical disciplines of French, Italian and especially Russian ballet. To fill its ranks, they started a tuition-free school with satellite academies in every province of the country. They scoured local schools and sports camps for young talent, regardless of the student's background. Graduates who didn't become performers became teachers. The result, as Alonso says, is "a Cuban school of ballet that is appreciated all over the world...
...other direction, and the credential value of the degree is so high that there's no penalty to Harvard for placing the needs of its faculty over the best interests of its students. McKinsey and Goldman Sachs will come calling with $90,000-a-year job offers regardless of what's in the curriculum. Harvard's next president will face the same pressures and have a difficult time standing up to them...
...have the Quakers storm right back as Harvard substituted out its starters.That led Sullivan to stick with his starting five down the stretch, forcing each starter to log between 36 and 43 minutes, a key source of the fatigue that the Crimson experienced the following evening.“Regardless of whether you play at Penn or at Princeton first, the Friday night game is always the one that takes a lot of energy out of you,” Sullivan said. “There’s a lot of energy that’s required...
...House and Senate ethics committees-the only panels with equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats, regardless of who holds the majority-enforce the ethics rules each chamber sets up to govern members? conduct. This runs from governing the use of official expense accounts and payroll to determining when a congressman or an aide must recuse himself from official action to avoid a conflict (answer: rarely). The most basic stricture of House ethics guidelines gives the ethics committee leeway to act or not act in almost any case. It requires that a congressman ?shall conduct himself at all times...
...until this fall, the UC awarded 13 party grants each week. Regardless of the size of the hosting suite, each room was awarded $100. But this changed in October when UC members Alexandra M. Gutierrez ’08 and Jia “Jane” Fang ’08 sponsored a bill overhauling the process. The bill reduced the number of upperclass parties funded weekly by the UC from 13 to 10, and it created a list of 14 “super party suites.” This list includes suites that have long been recognized...