Those talks had ended weeks ago after Livni demanded that Netanyahu agree to share the premiership with her through a rotation agreement, give her full control over strategy for dealing with the Palestinians and adopt the establishment of a Palestinian state as the primary goal of his government.
Of the National Ballet casts I saw, two of the three in rotation, Heather Ogden's Alice was more memorable than that of Jillian Vanstone, showing both spunk and control.