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How about if you are living together?" There was a jackhammer pounding a staccato racket outside as she spoke, but the students stayed focused, calling out responses in unison like a corps of Army recruits.

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"I say, 'Hey, man, if you're looking for a home, the better you play the better chance you have of having a home.' " Of course, Baker said in response to another question, he would like to have a corps of young players like the Minnesota Twins has.

Its international efforts include establishing IT training labs in places like Kenya and Laos, organizing a corps of Korean volunteers to teach IT education abroad and hosting an annual forum for IT experts from developing countries.

But there was always something a bit fey about Mr Knievel, even in the 1970s, when long hair and tight crotches made every young man look like a member of a corps de ballet.

And last, dare to be "audacious" with innovative programs, Mr. Danzig suggested, like the creation of a corps of citizens who could be trained to step in to help a child when caseloads went over a certain limit and then stick with that child as a mentor as he or she grows up.

Projected on the grid behind them, like a ghostly corps de ballet, we see those same actions filmed from a different angle, or relayed a few seconds out of sync.

And as always, the East India Marine Hall, built in 1824 and part of the original museum, has ship figureheads ranged around the walls like a prim corps de ballet, carved skirts stirred by imagined winds.

Other scenes — like a female corps of 12 traveling in three vertical rows to our right while a line of 5 men crosses the stage in a diagonal moving to our left, as if involved in separate migrations — make this a fascinatingly complex work.

All's well even when a quartet of sea slugs emerge, their big seaweedy bodies swaying and dancing like a mini corps de ballet.

Mr. Hendrickson, who is 19 and is a corps dancer like Ms. Taylor, joined City Ballet in 1998.

In the 1980s, as collecting cards for fun turned into the more adult pursuit of investing in cards for profit, Topps faced a corps of rivals like Fleer, Donruss, Leaf, Score and, most significantly, the innovative Upper Deck.

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