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...Clearly, Ross G. Douthat ’02 (the aforementioned Crimson pundit) has changed his mind...
...still, a piece of antique statuary, hoarding secrets in deference to her good master. When she speaks, it's in tortuous translations from the pseudo-Cantonese ("It is the hope that Su Lin was of small help to Mr. Williams"), Eleven years later she was another housekeeper in the Ross Hunter production Portrait in Black, this time supporting Anthony Quinn, who had done small roles in her late-30s Paramount films. Now he was the famous name and she the filler. (Also in 1960, Quinn starred as an Inuit in Nicholas Ray's The Savage Innocents - opposite another actress, Marie...
...took Briski months to overcome the suspicions of the hookers and their hangers-on. The kids--bright, cheerful, curious--were easier. She passed out simple point-and-shoot cameras and offered rudimentary instruction in the art of photography. Her Oscar-nominated documentary, Born into Brothels, which she made with Ross Kauffman, offers an astonishing record of her technique's success--and its limits...
...meeting with the new Palestinian leader until Abbas punishes the perpetrators of the attack. And yet there is sufficient respect between the two leaders that it may be just a matter of time before they sit down together. "They will have no difficulty talking to each other," says Dennis Ross, the former U.S. envoy to the Middle East. "But it won't matter what the words are. It matters what happens on the ground." Sharon treats Abbas with a level of respect he never showed Arafat. At the peace talks in Wye River, Maryland, in 1998, Sharon refused to shake...
...Ross Hoffman has his way, weather will someday submit to the whim of man instead of the other way around. Hoffman, a principal scientist at the technology research firm Atmospheric & Environmental Research, in Lexington, Mass., forecasts a sunny future in which, say, stampeding typhoons could be safely corralled and driven back out to sea. The key to weather control, says Hoffman, is understanding that even the fiercest tempest is a delicate creature. And by exploiting the sensitivity of weather to tiny changes in the environment, Hoffman has successfully tamed two hurricanes, thus saving dozens of lives and billions of dollars...