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Although a formulaic thriller at heart, director Philip Kaufman’s Twisted still manages to entertain, effectively playing on its setting in the San Francisco Harbor area to create a dark and seedy atmosphere. Combined with dank sexual undertones, the ambience gives Twisted the key components of a suspense film to hold the attention of a thrill-seeking audience. The mystery begins when homicide inspector Jessica Shepard (Ashley Judd) finds herself deeply intertwined in the new series of murders she is investigating. It turns out the victims are all past lovers, and soon Jessica is the primary suspect...
...described Okin’s devotion to the Global Fund for Women, a San Francisco-based foundation. In January, Okin traveled to India to represent the foundation at the World Social Forum...
...memorial celebration will be held at Stanford this spring and will be followed by a conference honoring Okin’s scholarship. The family requests that donations in Okin’s memory be made to the Global Fund for Women, 1375 Sutter St., Suite 400, San Francisco...
Some elections skim the surface of American life; others cut very close to the bone. In this campaign we have already been buffeted by exceedingly powerful social and political images--men kissing other men on the steps of San Francisco's city hall, Saddam being pulled from a hole, John Kerry hugging a man he saved in Vietnam, Janet Jackson's exposed breast at the Super Bowl, George W. Bush prancing prematurely in his flight suit, Howard Dean screaming, Bush bringing turkey to the troops. The chaotic rush of images--and the President's constant invocation of incendiary words like...
Starbucks only grudgingly entered the Fair Trade market four years ago after protesters scheduled rallies against its "sweatshop coffee." Today activist groups such as the Global Exchange in San Francisco are demanding that it hike Fair Trade purchases from about 1% to at least 5% of its coffee. The $4 billion Seattle behemoth offers only one Fair Trade variety (at $11.45 lb.) out of 20-plus types of whole beans and serves Fair Trade brew in its 3,900 U.S. shops only one day a month. Says Anthony Sprauve, vice president for worldwide public affairs: "The demand is not there...