witzerland says goodbye to ballet legend Bejart
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AFP) Legendary ballet choreographer Maurice Bejart received a final curtain call four days after his death, as friends and family gathered for a farewell ceremony in Lausanne Monday.
The curtain rose and dropped twice on Bejart's coffin, bathed in a stark light and flanked by possessions loved by the artist, amid strains of classical and Indian music at the city's art-deco Metropole performance hall.
Born in France and famed worldwide for both his avant-garde style and his desire to reconnect ballet to the masses, Bejart died in a hospital in his adopted Lausanne Thursday at the age of 80.
On Sunday, hundreds of people waited patiently in line at the Metropole to pay their last respects to Bejart.
He is to be cremated Tuesday in Lausanne and the urn containing his ashes will be given to his family, according to a spokesman for his Bejart Ballet company.
Bejart had asked that his ashes be scattered on the beaches of Belgium's North Sea coastal town of Ostend
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Forward Air Agrees To Acquire Curtains Assets Of Black Hawk Freight Services - Update [FWRD]
11/26/2007 4:46:24 PM Forward Air Corp. (FWRD), a provider of surface transportation and logistics services, said Monday its subsidiary, Forward Air, Inc., agreed to acquire certain assets of the privately held Black Hawk Freight Services, Inc.
For the year ended December 31, 2006, the Milan, Illinois-based Black Hawk generated revenues of $30 million, according to the Forward Air.
Commenting on the acquisition, Bruce A. Campbell, Chairman, President and CEO of Forward Air said that the respective operations of both the companies are a good fit on many levels.
The Greeneville, Tennessee-based Forward Air expects Black Hawks' cartage operations to support its Forward Air Complete initiative and widen the geographic footprint of its pool distribution operations.
Black Hawks' exclusive use vehicles, hotshot, customs services and airport-to-airport services compliment Forward Air's existing airport to airport network
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