IN the first intermission of the first performance of Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake," at Sadlers Wells in London in 1995, the choreographer was approached by the theater producer Cameron Mackintosh, renowned for mounting big-stage, big-ticket spectacles like "Cats" and "Les Mis?bles".
Pakistan's Army has mounted big offensives against Pakistani Taliban factions in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan.
In the spring, the lawyers mounted big rallies in major cities when General Musharraf tried to dismiss the chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who has now been fired.
To its credit, Pakistan's Army has mounted big offensives against Pakistani Taliban factions in the Swat Valley and South Waziristan and paid a steep price: losing 2,000 soldiers in battle.
Now America is very concerned that Pakistan, where it is due to spend $1.5 billion in military aid from 2005 to 2009, is no longer ready to mount big military operations there.This follows a deal General Musharraf's government signed on September 5th with militants in North Waziristan.
The party will face stiff resistance to its plan to revoke a colonial-era parliamentary act that banned political parties from the tribal areas and left the field open to the mullahs.The party, whose stronghold is the vale of Peshawar, also secured seats in Swat, to the north, where the army has mounted big operations against jihadists.
The rest is well-documented history: that Sunday 11 December, more than 5000 people gathered at North Cronulla; men of Arabic appearance were assaulted; large groups of Lebanese Australians from south-west Sydney mounted big reprisal attacks; police and rioters clashed; dozens of people were seriously injured and 104 charged.
I think we can all agree that the air in London could use a bit of scrubbing; maybe they could mount big filters on the tops of these things as well.
Sometimes we'll mount big pieces of butcher paper on the wall and scribble my initial thoughts on them in colorful markers.
