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The school must now survive without the firm hand of Balanchine, who died in 1983. Several important teachers are over 70 and will probably be replaced by retired City Ballet dancers, whose methods may be blander and more homogeneous. Last spring there was a public power scuffle on the school...
Deng's reforms abolished the communes and replaced them with a contract system. Though the state continues to own all land, it leases plots, mostly to individual families. Rent is paid by delivery of a set quantity of rice, wheat or whatever to the state at a fixed price. But...
Miami's People Mover also has glitches, but compared with Detroit's, it has been humming: it is just $2.6 million over budget. Detroit's project was fitful from the start. Eager to get rolling after frequent delays, the promoters broke ground in 1983, although only 3.6% of the on...
Instead of trumpeting the return of such freedoms, Zia spoke in cautionary terms. "No radical change of the system should be anticipated," he told Parliament. The message: Zia fully intends to retain control over Pakistan's emerging democracy. Perhaps the best demonstration of that intention is a new Political Parties...
Crossing to the northern bank of El Salvador's Torola River is like entering a different country. The neatly uniformed government troops who man checkpoints south of the river are replaced less than a mile down the road by rebels in mix-and-match uniforms and civilian clothes. A guerrilla...