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...Echoing this sentiment, Genevieve A. Uzamere ’07 points out that “it’s hard to capture a person in a picture.” In the end, however, Uzamere did send in a professionally-taken portrait of herself in a pin-striped suit. “I didn’t want to be represented by a sketch,” she says...
...mixed crowd of students, volunteers and older supporters responded well to the speech, rising for a standing ovation when Kerry stressed the need for accountability in the Oval Office. He paced in front of the auditorium as he spoke, without a tie but with a small American flag pin on his blazer’s lapel...
Rather than having characters who are slaves to the narrative, he creates moments that are reflections of real people. The film is not easy to pin down with a plot summary or character descriptions; suffice it to say that it deals with issues of mourning, loneliness and alienation. Lee is a watch vendor fixated by a woman he meets briefly (and played extraordinarily realistically by Chiang Shiang-Chyi); she is on her way to Paris and wants to buy the watch off his wrist...
...serious ideas for a serious time in California's history. "This isn't the movies," says Democratic political consultant David Axelrod. "No one is going to throw him a ray gun so he can blow up the deficit." But will a two-month campaign give anyone enough time to pin Schwarzenegger down on the issues that bedevil the state, from air quality to immigration, water rights to education? Schwarzenegger is promising detailed plans for how he will solve the state's myriad problems, but thus far his positions have been as vaporous as his witty one-liners (see following story...
...those allegations did not resurface in the hearing this week. Instead, Okhotin and his two lawyers limited their arguments to the events of March 29, avoiding conspiracy theories and striving to pin down an accurate timeline of that day. When disputes erupted between the prosecution and the defense, they concerned factual discrepancies...