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...Corps volunteer, with whom he has a three-month-old daughter. He served as a desk officer in Washington and an administrative officer in Mongolia before arriving in Moscow last year. When his predecessor left Russia last June, Hay became acting country director. This is not his first brush with controversy. In August, 30 volunteers who'd been in Russia for a year were denied visa extensions. The Russian Education Ministry, which coordinates Corps' activities, "supported our requests for visas and passed them on, so it was a surprise when they were denied," says Hay. "We decided not to bring...
...driver for automakers and customizing shops that garners an estimated $26 billion-plus in sales each year. Gary Cowger, president of GM North America, says the trend toward personalization is evident in sales of the Hummer H2, a favorite of affluent baby boomers. Sales of accessories like running boards, brush guards and roof racks are "much better than we expected," he says...
...Nameless has three main adversaries: Sky (Donnie Yen), a master martial artist he defeats in the film's first, superb battle scene; Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a calligrapher who is as adroit with a brush as with a saber; and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), Broken Sword's soul mate. Flying Snow has a side skirmish of her own with Moon (Zhang Ziyi), Broken Sword's smitten apprentice. Loyalties are tested, alliances made and sundered. Death is the price for betrayal?of the King or the heart...
...thanks to his work with cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who has shot many of Wong Kar-wai's films. Zhang, of course, controlled the design of Hero, but Doyle's hurtling, poetic personality shines through; you can sense the camera in his hands as surely as you could feel the brush in Jackson Pollock's. He is a calligrapher with light...
...base of the mountains, Highway 101 snakes around the Olympic peninsula following a silent, morose track through endless clear cuts. Coarse and hideous, with brush piled in heaps, the naked scars on the mountains emanate destruction and death. Here, the logging companies clear cut the land entirely, and then commence ‘sustainable logging practices,’ which entail replanting the tracts in rows of trees that grow until they are large enough to be cut again...