Dancer Dusty Button prepares for Swan Lake debut

Dancer Dusty Button prepares for Swan Lake debut

As the Swan Lake theme rings out from a piano, Principal Dancer Dusty Button arches her back and curves her arms into the form of delicate wings. Button seems to float across the studio as she rehearses for her full length debut with Boston Ballet in Mikko Nissinen's Swan Lake.

The cool evening light passes through the tall windows of Boston Ballet's studios. Button has been onsite rehearsing for nearly eight hours. But the ticking clock does not stop either Button or her partner, Principal Dancer Lasha Khozashvili, from a productive and lively rehearsal with Ballet Master Larissa Ponomarenko.

National security expert: Obama gave Iran better nuke deal than US allies got
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National security expert: Obama gave Iran better nuke deal than US allies got

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(CNSNews.com) — The terms of President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran are "much better" than those granted to some of the United States' own allies, says a national security expert at the Heritage Foundation.

"For more than five decades, the U.S. refused to allow even its allies to have some of the uranium enrichment facilities that Iran has gained under this deal.

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