"We would like the Army corps to protect every wetland, no matter how small," said Marian H. Rose, the conservation chairwoman of the Sierra Club's Atlantic Chapter and president of the Croton Watershed Clean Water Coalition.
Knowing that the new flood walls and earthen levees weren't high enough to stop a Katrina-like surge, the corps built in features intended to keep them standing, including erosion-fighting measures like concrete "splash pads" to prevent overflow from washing away supporting soil.
Bridget Kuhns was Friday's exemplary soloist, dispensing semaphore-like arm signals to the corps of 32 Houston men and women.
In pieces like "Serenade" the corps is the ballet, and that's an amazing feeling.
Because they like the work, some corps members were retained after their mandatory 1 year service.
The truth is, retiring isn't a reflection of what we didn't like about life in the Corps, it's more a matter of timing and opportunities.
I like the way that the corps de ballet (enthusiastic, well mannered) is given plenty to do; no excerpt was just a show-stopping party piece.
Like a dancer in the corps de ballet required to grin despite the pain, she smiles throughout her answers (or, quite often, platitudinous non-answers).
The really effective appearance of the corps system, like the strategy which its use permitted, is directly associated with Bonaparte during the consulate and empire.
Aficionados like to talent-scout among the corps, but otherwise no one thinks much about the dancers who, year in and year out, make up that necessary body.
