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Kudos to Kate Mark Harris' agreeable article on Kate Winslet ignores one of her defining cinematic achievements: her first film, Peter Jackson's classic New Zealand epic Heavenly Creatures [March 2]. The strength of this performance, and the manner in which she brought to life the notorious Christchurch schoolgirl Juliet Hulme, was deeply striking. One can only gape in awe at the growth in ability she has shown from such an auspicious beginning. Victor Ochoa, Danville...
...Delhi in the early 1970s, my family traveled by scooter in the classic, death-defying Indian fashion. My father would drive, with me, a toddler, standing on the floorboard in front of him and my mother seated pillion, cradling my infant sister in her arms. My father was a civil engineer and my mother a nurse, and in India at that time, cars for a young family were far out of reach...
...Europe. These and dozens of other refinements yield a car that weighs just 1,322 lb. (600 kg), less than half the weight of a Honda Accord. Reducing weight helps make the most of the Tata Motors - designed two-cylinder engine, which is bolted in the rear (like the classic people's car, the Volkswagen Beetle) and can power the Nano to a top speed of about 62 m.p.h. (100 km/h) in 23 seconds. Fuel economy is excellent: about 56 miles per gallon (24 km/L), better than a Prius, Toyota's hybrid sedan. (Read "India's Top Automaker, Tata Motors...
...strong showing at the Highlander Classic could be indicative of how the Crimson’s regular season is going to go, since it is the final tournament leading up to the beginning of the Ivy season...
...while falling for Aaron Carmichael (Mykelti Williamson), a black reporter covering the story. (Not surprisingly, neither expresses familiarity with the term “conflict of interest.”)In the movie’s first scene, a student passionately refuses to define his ethnicity in a classic “checkbox” dilemma. At stake is a $12,000 scholarship offered only to minority students, but Patrick (Victor Rasuk) does not identify with his Puerto Rican roots on principle. The desired effect is admiration for his idealism, but a low-income college student turning down thousands...