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...Have you ever had a role in which your views are the opposite of the character you portray? -Peg Wimberly, Victorville, calif.In The Mosquito Coast I played a role only called Mother. She was always in the kitchen and supporting her husband, never arguing. The way I got my head around it was that I had recently played Morgana in Excalibur, who was the male fantasy of the evil, sexually voracious witch woman. So I thought, Cool, I can play the two sides of the coin of male fantasy about women...
...encircling them from the west and south. Ukraine's prospective NATO membership is particularly painful to Russia in terms of security and emotions: Ukraine is the site of Kievan Rus, the original state from which both Russia and Ukraine sprang. Russian historians traditionally referred to Kiev as "The Mother of Russian cities." As for Georgia, Moscow frets about what it sees as an encirclement in order to dismember Russia and grab its hydrocarbon and other riches. Most Russians are not yet ready even to come to terms with the idea of Georgia's independence...
...Parents could insist that they be informed whenever the college believes their child is in trouble. While there are privacy rules to consider, we should never again see the tragedy that occurred at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year when the college denied a student’s mother access to her son’s dorm room and computer until she obtained a search warrant, even though the Federal Bureau of Investigation was searching for him as a missing person. The student was found dead a week later...
...Maupin was a 20-year-old private first class when he was captured on April 9, 2004, after his fuel convoy was attacked west of Baghdad. "It really hurts," his mother said. "You go through four years of hope...
...Under the Same Moon has a character for almost everyone with some part in the Hispanic immigrant story. There's the boy, spunky Carlito (Adrian Alonso), separated from his parents by the border; the mother, Rosario; a disillusioned recent illegal played by telenovela star Kate del Castillo; Ferrera's second- or third- generation college student; a drifter Carlito meets picking fruit; a security guard with a green card and a shiny truck who courts Rosario; and the list goes on. "It speaks about life on both borders, why people feel the need to come over and what it's like...