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...could also be stepped-up public surveillance. At last year's Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla., law-enforcement officials secretly scanned spectators' faces with surveillance cameras and instantly matched their faceprints against photographs of suspected terrorists and known criminals in computerized databases. Facial-recognition technology might help, says Bruce Hoffman, vice president for external affairs at the Rand Corp. and a former adviser to the National Commission on Terrorism, but mostly after the fact, during an investigation. And that means storing all the face data collected, something civil libertarians fear will allow the government to track any individual. If systems...
...Alison Hoffman, 26 - Lehman Bros
...prices. They are crazy because hundreds of them a night are willing to camp out in record heat for free theater tickets. The occasion is an all-star production of Chekhov's The Seagull in Central Park, starring KEVIN KLINE, MERYL STREEP, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Christopher Walken. But if Chekhov knew how a man of Goodman's girth can sweat, he might have written in a Towel Boy character. In a week when temperatures soared to 103[degrees]F, the actors could at least retreat to air-conditioned dressing rooms between scenes...
...themselves back in their mother’s home, exhibiting fraternity at its best and its worst. With source material that is rich in dialogue and powerful in emotion, it’s no wonder that past productions have drawn the likes of John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, and even Bruce Willis, whose recent performance will be captured on film by the Showtime cable network...
...take away all grooming implements and you get Ira, who considered himself too mythic to bathe regularly or use his given name. Einhorn means "one horn," so he called himself the Unicorn. When it wasn't fair maidens he was after, it was the company of nags like Rubin, Hoffman and Allen Ginsberg. He ingested enough drugs to kill a whale. He organized be-ins. He called himself a planetary enzyme and "sort of smelled like a hoagie with onions all the time," as a friend puts it. For Philadelphia, a social and political backwater in which consciousness raising...