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Since its inception in 2004, the Minuteman Project (MP), an immigration control operation, has recruited civilians to apprehend illegal immigrants along the Mexican border...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Locals Revolt Against Use of ‘Minuteman’ | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...main characters largely revolve around their inability to communicate. Susan (Cate Blanchett) and Richard (Brad Pitt), the wounded tourist and her husband, can’t find a phone that will get through to the American embassy and are divided from the locals by a language barrier. Their Mexican nanny is frustrated in her attempts to explain herself to the U.S. border patrol after she illegally leaves the country with Susan’s kids. The Moroccan boys who fired on the bus during a deadly game of sibling one-upmanship can’t justify their actions to their...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Babel | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

...grievously wounds a woman dozing by one of its windows. In Tokyo an adolescent girl, puzzled and angry over her mother's suicide (and a deaf-mute as well), bedevils her father and at the same time blatantly asserts her confused but flaming sexual needs. In San Diego a Mexican woman tends two Anglo children she deeply loves while their parents are on holiday, but when her own son needs her, she puts her charges in jeopardy. Unable to find someone to replace her, she takes them along to her son's wedding with near calamitous results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Power of Babel | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...with the gun is playful and innocent; he is not trying to cause an international incident. The sex-crazed Japanese girl is a recognizably troubled adolescent, quite unaware of the largely hormonal firestorm raging within her. The Mexican au pair is a kindly and responsible woman, caught in conflict between the needs of her beloved charges and the call of a central event in her family's life. Her crisis is the more powerful for the way it takes her, unaware of the gathering threat, to the brink of madness and death. It is a measure of Gonz?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Power of Babel | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...presenters ended by encouraging people to come to their rehearsal and to continue to practice the steps on their own. Exhausted attendees consumed refreshments before learning about traditional Indian dance and leaping across the room. Afterwards, representatives from Ballet Folklórico made everyone partner up for traditional Mexican dance. The Asian American Dance Troupe (AADT) closed the event with a Han Ribbon Dance, led by Eva M. Luo ’08, the current co-president of CSA, former captain of AADT, and one of the main sources of inspiration for the event. According to Luo, her interest...

Author: By Ryshelle M. Mccadney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Uncommon Dances Bring Veterans and Amateurs to Their Feet | 10/19/2006 | See Source »

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