Word: prieto
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Guillermo Prieto Quintana, police chief of the Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez, resigned in the face of a large increase in violence against law-enforcement officers during President Felipe Calderón's continuing crackdown on drug cartels. Out of 22 senior Ciudad Juárez officials named on a cartel death list, seven have been killed and three wounded; except for one, the rest have quit...
...Tango as a Cultural Form.”Bhabha is most excited for Saturday’s three-way “conversation” between cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, another internationally-acclaimed cellist, the Mexico City-based Carlos Prieto, and world-renowned composer Osvaldo Golijov.A NEW MODEL?While the conference’s topics range broadly, Bhabha says that what unifies these discussions is the role of “tango” as metaphor.“The world over, it has been seen as a metaphor of passion. The nature of tango...
...quickly, and without much cause. As a result, interaction between characters never feels entirely authentic and the message is undermined.Like his characters, Iñárritu’s no good at telling, but he’s wonderful when it comes to showing. Veteran cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto moves the camera dexterously from the bare windblown deserts of Mexico and Morocco to congested Tokyo interiors, squeezing desolation and beauty out of both. In the movie’s most original, riveting sequence, we follow Chieko as she drops ecstasy in a park and dances with a group of boys...
Indeed, it's hard to know how much we should spend until we decide on our priorities for protecting the nation's transport system--something Chertoff's department has not yet made clear. "That kind of road map is still missing out of Washington," says Daniel Prieto, research director of the Homeland Security Partnership Initiative at Harvard University. Sixteen times as many Americans take public transit every day as take planes. Does that mean the spending ought to shift to those riders? On Dec. 31, the Department of Homeland Security was supposed to provide Congress with a strategic plan...
...repeatedly of just how much the characters once had, and asking us to decide how much they’ve lost through the death of others. How much they’ve gained, on the other hand. The film’s beautiful cinematography at the hands of Rodrigo Prieto juxtaposes heart-wrenching scenes with visions of birds framed against a dusky sky—images of life and death, of beauty and its counterpart. The film’s ending leaves us pondering death’s contradictory tokens, while Penn’s voice echoes insistently...