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...movie takes a story of tough detectives tracking sophisticated robots and dresses it in some gorgeously painterly images. As Sky Captain is set in the proto-past, Ghost 2 is set in the retro future--Blade Runner territory. Like so many films inspired by the stories of Philip K. Dick, this one is awash in meditation on the basic Phildickian questions: In a world where men and machines coexist, what does it mean to be truly human? And in a future world of wondrous and terrifying possibilities, what, if anything, is real? Can it be that, as Ghost 2 suggests...
This past summer UNITY released a six-month study on diversity in the Washington press with the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. According to the census, less than ten percent of journalists in the Washington daily newspapers press corps are of color. It revealed a mere portion of a national trend of racial disparities among influential newspapers, one that The Harvard Crimson follows. Of the few hundred active editors that compose The Crimson’s nine boards, fewer than twenty are black or Hispanic. Asian students fare better, holding approximately forty positions...
...BOOKS: Philip Roth proves his literary prowess once again...
EVEN WITH HIS 26TH BOOK about to appear in bookstores, Philip Roth is still revising. Now 71, Roth has won just about every major American award a novelist can win, but a casual suggestion--that he has been insufficiently cruel to one of his characters--gets him pondering. "I didn't think of something like that happening to him," he says, musing aloud. "I guess--you know, it's interesting that you bring that up. It's too late for me to make any changes--the finished book just arrived today--but I wonder what I could have done...
...tied by a shrinking U.S. market, the Marlboro Man is setting his sights on China. Altria Group's Philip Morris International will soon produce the world's best-selling cigarette in the world's largest tobacco market. China's more than 300 million smokers consumed 1.75 trillion cigarettes last year, but foreign sales accounted for only about 5% of these because of government restrictions. The venture with Fujian province's Longyan Cigarette Factory will make Marlboros widely available in China. But Big Tobacco's China dreams have gone up in smoke before. In 1986 R.J. Reynolds formed a $31 million...