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...cotton to his motives early on, when he passes Camille, a former plaything, over to Bolivian strongman General Medrano (Joaquín Cosio). Turns out Camille, like Bond, has a score to settle: she has lost her mother and daughter to Medrano's depredations. This time, for both of them, it's personal; hero and heroine percolate silently, sulfurously, with vengeance scenarios that may somehow intersect. Kurylenko, a lovely Russian-Ukrainian hybrid who is oddly duskied up to look vaguely Latina, does an exemplary job raising the movie's temperature and luring Bond out of his shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quantum of Solace: Bourne-Again Bond | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Butterfly), a zillionaire member of the Quantum board who uses environmental philanthropy to mask his sick dreams of diverting water from the peasants of South America. (Bolivia is the new Chinatown.) Greene passes along one of his plaything-victims, the seductive Camille (Olga Kurylenko), to the Bolivian strongman Gen. Medrano (Joaquín Cosio). Turns out Camille, like Bond, has a score to settle. This time, for both of them, it's personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brisk, Brutal Bond: The Quantum of Solace Review | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...army of street vendors selling potato chips, candy and ice cream has set up shop, waiting for schoolchildren to be released by the afternoon bell. Technically, it's against city ordinances for the vendors to operate near school grounds during the day, but no one is stopping them. Elizabeth Medrano--an activist with the Healthy School Food Coalition and the mother of a 9-year-old boy--tours the streets around the school, where nearly all the food options are found at a handful of liquor stores and bodegas. Each prominently displays candy and packaged snacks; only a few small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Just Genetics | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Decisions that were never easy have become even harder: Sue Medrano, an information-systems analyst for a large brokerage firm in San Francisco, is thrilled to be making $70,000 a year but can't figure out when to take a vacation, let alone have a baby. Lynn Andel, an advertising writer in Crestwood, Mo., isn't sure whether to buy life insurance to protect her kids or invest in stocks for her retirement. In this climate, it is easy to find people like the Jorjorians in affluent Wilmette, Ill., who are raising two children and finding it tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PARADOX OF PROSPERITY | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...think it's bad," said Sergio Medrano, a biomedical technician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. "When these hospitals merge with the other hospitals, the one with more power ends up staying the same and the others have layoffs...

Author: By Joe Mathews and Ira E. Stoll, S | Title: Affiliate Hospitals Confirm Talks On Cooperation | 7/6/1993 | See Source »

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