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...winter finery. The New York City Ballet will have George Balanchine's exquisitely aristocratic Russian version (where dance aficionados often get their first chance to see new corps members perform solos). Across the river in Brooklyn, a new offshoot of the Bolshoi Ballet will show off its own simpler production. The Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle will feature Maurice Sendak's charming sets, and the Houston Ballet will move the family into a turn-of-the-century farmhouse and scale down their bourgeois comforts (presents will be homey food). Sleighs, as usual, will be the favorite transport...
...sports, showing but never speaking of love, depression, disdain, fear. He says he'll never run out of stories, though he keeps his bar-association membership current, just in case. He loves what he does, and has never collided with writer's block. Advice to young novelists? Nothing simpler: "You're a bricklayer, you lay bricks...
...government of Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, which had promised to institute a legal system based on Shariat law, decided to seek a new interpretation of the law from Islamic scholars. Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, a federal minister, announced that the strikers' "misgivings" would be remedied by a "simpler and befitting interpretation" of the law. Nawaz Sharif is learning that imposing Islamic codes is far tougher than campaigning on the issue...
Pointing to our dark living rooms is less painful than voting for much-needed energy taxes. It is simpler than supporting tough national energy policy like Singapore's, in which the government limits the number of cars that are licensed and charges a fee for driving downtown. It is easier than setting aside scarce federal funds for research into alternative fuels like natural gas, or limitless power like solar or wind energy...
...such a bad idea), we should press for the total isolation and destruction of the South African economy. But then again, isn't the point of sanctions to resolve conflicts without resorting to military force? If we want a military solution, an outright invasion would doubtless be simpler and more cost-effective than inducing our adversary's citizens to rise up in revolt...