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...BLOOD DIAMOND When a Hollywood star sports a foreign accent for one of his characters, viewers are tempted to say, Stop trying to hide; we know it's you. But Leonardo DiCaprio is such a resourceful actor, and such a magnetic movie presence, that he can persuasively slip into the character of Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler from Zimbabwe who's on the trail of a rock the size of Kilimanjaro. Blood Diamond, the fitfully engrossing drama from director Edward Zwick (Glory, The Last Samurai), links Danny with the diamond's discoverer, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou, ever noble), whose family...
Bottom Line: “Apocalypto” may prove the ultimate in sanguine cinema for those who don’t find a total tally of four still-beating hearts held aloft a petrifying prospect. But if the beauty of a blood-cloud leaves you cold, or worse, slightly ill, it may prove a far less pleasing experience...
...challenge to both major parties to work cooperatively to solve the nation's foreign and domestic problems. Kirk D. Gulden Wilkesboro, North Carolina, U.S. I believe the midterm elections may finally swing the pendulum back from President Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution. But it took the needlessly spilled blood of too many young Americans to do it. Tragically, Reagan's "Morning in America" has become mourning in America. Russell Kussman Los Angeles Kklein quoted a senior administration official who referred to the failure of Bush's Iraq policy as "a Mick Jagger moment ... You can't always get what...
Contrary to what their blood-red campaign posters demand, Undergraduate Council presidential candidates Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08 do not actually want to “kill the UC.” Rather, they want to wound it severely.The offbeat presidential candidate and his armchair-theorist running mate say that if elected, they would eliminate the UC’s role as middleman between students and the administration and transfer decision-making power to undergraduates.Neither Hwang nor Wong have had any UC experience, but they embrace their outsider status...
...Scalia pointed to the problem in both districts of dividing students into only two categories, with no distinction made for Latino, Asian-American or multi-racial students. "What if a particular child's grandfather was white?" he asked. "There are many people of mixed blood." When told parents are allowed to self-identify with a particular racial group, Scalia said that that "seems like a big loophole...