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BETTER LUCK TOMORROW. Justin Lin’s complex, exhilarating breakthrough film features an all Asian-American cast and packs some real punch. Four high school overachievers inevitably bound for prestigious Ivy League universities turn to cheating, drugs and crime to escape the terrible ennui of their privileged suburban lives. Critic Roger Ebert stood up on a chair at the Sundance Film Festival to defend Lin’s portrayal of Asian-Americans. See full story in the April 11 issue. Better Luck Tomorrow screens...
...week later, Schaffer says, he had a creative breakthrough. While working on a painting, he suddenly drew a line in the middle of the canvas. Until that point, the right-handed Schaffer had been painting on the right side of the canvas, with his right hand. Mid-painting, he switched to his left hand and began forming bizarre images of faces, people and animals. He has not painted with his right hand since...
...tries, Lesley Brown's doctors found the secret to creating a baby outside the womb: having fertilized her egg in vitro, or in a Petri dish, they implanted the embryo after only 2 1/2 days rather than waiting for five and were rewarded with their first successful pregnancy. The breakthrough was not chronicled in some journal of reproductive medicine. The whole world awaited the birth because at the suggestion of one of their doctors, the parents had negotiated exclusive rights to the first baby pictures with the London Daily Mail for more than $500,000. Newspapers that bought reprint rights...
...legitimizing Latino Studies and the study of ethnic groups as a whole,” said RAZA President Priscilla J. Orta ’05. “I don’t think of this as a dramatic breakthrough, but it is a step in the right direction...
...distinctly regional stories and styles but makes a connection with worldwide audiences. "These directors have developed a hybrid of U.S. and Latin American storytelling values," says University of Miami film professor Rafael Lima. "This wave will last - in fact, I'd say it hasn't even exploded yet." The breakthrough list of recent years also includes Mexico's Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch), whose sordid, interwoven stories of Mexico City life made it one of the smartest movies of 2000, in any country; the hauntingly beautiful Behind the Sun (Brazil, 2001) and Argentina's bittersweet, Oscar-nominated...