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Other noteworthy features include the built-in GPS, a media player and landscape mode for viewing Web pages horizontally and typing e-mails. (The iPhone 3G does not let you type e-mails in horizontal mode.) The screen is about the same size and resolution as the iPhone, while the built-in camera is slightly better at 3.2 megapixels, vs. 2.0 megapixels on the iPhone. You can also record video - a feature strangely lacking on the iPhone...
...cast comprising mostly non-professionals, Bethea, with only one other screen credit, is natural and affecting in a role that begins sympathetically, turns cold just when Caleb is getting his promise-keepers act together and at the end has to melt into a resignation that could be renewed love. The one familiar face belongs to Cameron, who as a teen played scampish Mike Seaver on TV's Growing Pains and has since become the Tom Hanks of the niche evangelical-movie market, starring in the three films based on the Left Behind series of Rapture novels...
...could no longer beg. As she told her character’s story, Smith bent over in her chair and raised her left hand to her face, letting her body tremble in pain. But, when a photograph of the real Henriette Mutigwarba appeared on a screen, it suddenly became clear that Anna Deveare Smith was an impersonator. The all-consuming pain that Mutigwarba must have felt was only imitated onstage; she was the only one who could truly experience her emotion. Smith thus revealed her position as a medium through which these people’s stories could be told...
...such a respected cast and director, and a screenplay adapted from a novel by a widely acclaimed author, the movie’s failure is even more surprising. Ultimately, “Blindness” becomes a laughable attempt at translating greatness on the page to greatness on the screen. —Staff writer Andres A. Arguello can be reached at arguello@fas.harvard.edu...
...majors and jobs - even highly educated women more often choose "female" occupations that pay less - but the authors also note that discrimination persists. As one example, they cite a 2000 study which found that when symphony orchestras switched to blind auditions - those in which the musicians play behind a screen - women had a significantly better chance of being hired...