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...movie echoes Henry James' The Turn of the Screw and other literary and cinematic works (including The Others, also by a Spanish director) that investigate the power the dead have over the living, especially over children in the most imaginative and vulnerable stages. It concerns Laura (Belen Rueda), who as a child spent time in the Good Shepherd Orphanage before being adopted. For her the orphanage was not a horror house but the dearest refuge, where she had a half-dozen close friends her age, and which she recalls so fondly that after her marriage to a nice doctor, Carlos...
Ramon’s plans meet enormous obstacles because euthanasia is not endorsed by the Spanish legal system, and so Ramon recruits a lawyer, Julia (Belen Rueda), to help him fight for the right to die. His desire appears very resolute despite the seemingly good life he has been able to lead with his brother Jose (Celso Bugallo) and cared for by Jose’s wife Manuela (Mabel Rivera) and son Javi (Tamar Bovas...
...considerable civilian casualties. Saddam Hussein disappears, and Iraq disintegrates into chaos. The U.S. and its allies are stuck in Iraq for the foreseeable future, trying to hold things together. Meanwhile, the terrorist threat to the U.S. and its allies has become extreme. Not a pretty picture. CHARLES J. BRANDT Belen...
Americans feel at home just about anywhere in Costa Rica, but Beverlin and his bride spent a year searching for the perfect setting for their life together before deciding on the Cariari neighborhood of Belen, a 15-minute drive from both the international airport and the Hospital Mexico medical center, the largest in the Costa Rican capital, San Jose. For $83,000 they bought a four-bedroom, 3 1/2-bath, two-garage house--with a terrace and servants' quarters--surrounded by gardens that bloom year round in the region's springlike climate (average temperature: 72[degrees]F). Nearby is the Cariari...
Permian would like to see similar results on its 2,200-student campus. Like Belen High, it's a relatively safe school. But its administrators know that their counterparts in Littleton and Conyers thought the same of their schools. At Permian, Sandia is using both low tech and high tech. Student identification badges will not only immediately show who belongs and who doesn't but also contain bar codes school administrators can instantly scan to show everything from previous tardiness and truancies to medical records. (The badges can be used to buy lunches and check out library books too.) Visitors...