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...Marcos tells it, Diaz tricked her into cooperating by saying she was merely working on a master's thesis at Stanford University's film school. Marcos has also complained that, after their initial contact a decade ago, "I never heard from [Diaz] again until a few months ago, when she called to inform me that her film Imelda will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival." Diaz says she first interviewed Marcos in 1993 for a thesis on the history of Philippine women, then contacted her a few years later to propose a documentary about her life and flew with...
...Story has meant that films and TV serials are increasingly being digitally animated, produced entirely on computers using 3-D graphics. That's a boon for India, with its expertise in software and computer skills. While creative control is retained in the U.S.?a team of American master animators comes up with the look of each character, and scriptwriters determine the plots and dialogue?the task of creating each episode is outsourced to Indian animators, allowing the American company to lower its costs by up to 50%. A typical half-hour 3-D cartoon episode can cost...
...Business of War Re "The Master Builder" [June 7]: it is astonishing how closely intertwined Halliburton, the biggest contractor in Iraq, and the Pentagon are. Wherever the military goes, Halliburton seems to be perched on its shoulder to scavenge profits from the rubble of war. And as if Halliburton's mission weren't unsavory enough, ex-employees intimate that the company has been gorging itself on taxpayer dollars via inefficient no-bid contracts. The Pentagon needs to dissociate itself from this bloated vulture ASAP. Ulysses Lateiner Somerville...
...Master Builder" [June 7]: it is astonishing how closely intertwined Halliburton, the biggest contractor in Iraq, and the Pentagon are. Wherever the military goes, Halliburton seems to be perched on its shoulder to scavenge profits from the rubble of war. And as if Halliburton's mission weren't unsavory enough, ex-employees intimate that the company has been gorging itself on taxpayer dollars via inefficient no-bid contracts. The Pentagon needs to dissociate itself from this bloated vulture ASAP. ULYSSES LATEINER Somerville, Mass...
...switch from being a police officer to being a true-crime writer? I started by writing for True Confessions magazine, then became the stringer for True Detective and Master Detective. That entailed going down to the police department, the sheriff's office, to get the story. I went back to school to get a degree in police science. Over the next 14 years, I probably covered more than 1,000 cases, mostly murders, some bank robbers, some serial rapists...