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...found what many critics are calling buena onda, a consistent "groove" of relevant, top-drawer filmmaking that uses distinctly regional stories and styles but makes a connection with worldwide audiences. "These directors have developed a hybrid of U.S. and Latin American storytelling values," says University of Miami film professor Rafael Lima. "This wave will last - in fact, I'd say it hasn't even exploded yet." The breakthrough list of recent years also includes Mexico's Amores Perros (Love's a Bitch), whose sordid, interwoven stories of Mexico City life made it one of the smartest movies...
...tangled, the crucial figures in awarding the Trade Center job to Libeskind were not the official decision makers of the LMDC. In August the LMDC had set in motion a worldwide competition for the site. Early last month six semifinalists were winnowed down, Survivor-style, to two: Libeskind and Rafael Vinoly, a global design star of the same magnitude as Libeskind who worked as part of a project team called THINK. Its design featured immense twin towers of steel latticework. High-rise delicacies, they looked like ghostly evocations of the annihilated Trade Center--too much so for some people...
...finalists, the firm of Daniel Libeskind and the THINK team, led by Frederic Schwartz, Rafael Viñoly, Ken Smith and Shigeru Ban, were chosen, amid calls for a novel structure that would be a rejoinder, a memorial, a monument—a symbol and functional buildings and planning strategy. It is far from clear whether either of these proposals will ever be realized; what is apparent is that any plan must reckon with complex, and sometimes contradictory, public feelings about appropriate future uses of the site...
...Dominican dissidents assassinate dictator Rafael Trujillo. The CIA has encouraged their revolt and supplied weapons...
Such is the dismal level of leadership in Venezuela, a country that has always functioned as if oil could substitute for government. For now, the best the U.S. can hope for is the recovery of the national oil company, which Venezuelan Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez insists "can be accomplished by the middle of February" if the strike ends soon. But this crisis, like most curses, won't lift so easily. --With reporting by Owain Johnson/Caracas and Perry Bacon/Washington