<B>Sugar plum for 'Nutcracker' leader</B><BR>A preview article by Charles Passy, Palm Beach Post Arts Writer<P><BR>WEST PALM BEACH -- Nearly a decade ago, Ballet Florida Artistic Director Marie Hale presented her community with a special holiday gift: a lavish, $1 million production of the Nutcracker that could warm the most hardened of hearts. <P>On Saturday, the community gave her something back. <P>Just before the opening-night curtain rose on the company's annual Nutcracker run at the Kravis Center, West Palm Beach Mayor Joel Daves and his wife, Darden, presented Hale with a proclamation and a key to the city.<P><A HREF="http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/today/local_news_c352f63082e0d0e70076.html" TARGET=_blank><B>click for more</B></A>