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...woman meet for a beer, a blind date set up by friends. There are some first-meeting jitters: her jokes go past him; he pushes a little too hard. Still, they make a dinner date. There the conversation is more strained, and the woman ends the evening abruptly. She's too wrapped up in her job, she lies, to have a relationship. I'm sorry, but goodbye...
There are people whose spirit is so gracious and capacious that it is a privilege to be in their company. Such a one is Mohammad, a blind Iranian boy played--no, inhabited--by Mohsen Ramezani in Majid Majidi's enthralling pastorale The Color of Paradise...
Mohammad attends a Teheran school for the blind and spends each summer with his sisters, his grandmother and his widower father. The boy not only loves nature, he seems blissfully wed to its sounds, scents and textures. He wants to catch the wind, learn the secrets of stones in a stream. A blind carpenter tells him that God is invisible, but that we can feel him in everything he created. The boy's life is an urgent quest to use his sensitive, educated hands to find these signs of God, these colors of paradise, on earth...
...test purveyors say there has never been a good double-blind test," he says. "Meanwhile, as far as market tests go, a lot of people are taking these courses...
...Nguyen, however, defended the U.C. system's 1995 decision to implement a race-blind admissions process...