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...Then there's his Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris, a glass-walled structure that has another, free-standing glass wall set a few yards in front of it. You see the glass building behind a shimmering screen of glass that's constantly reflecting the street and sky. It's architecture as mirage...
...movie last weekend at Los Angeles' Landmark Pavilion theater, an art-house mecca, was the same as the one that drew the biggest crowds at the Block Orange, a 30-screen AMC theater in a sprawling Orange County shopping mall: a tiny, Spanish-language sleeper called Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna). A kind of Finding Nemo of border politics, Under the Same Moon follows a nine-year-old boy's travels from Mexico to the U.S. to reunite with his mother, an illegal immigrant who cleans houses in Los Angeles...
...Based on focus group reactions, Utley knew she had a movie Hispanic audiences would respond to. Some people were even crying at the TV commercials, she says. "They said, 'I've never seen myself on screen before...
...will data-sharing lead to data-snooping? DHS found that employers were improperly using the tool to screen employees before they were hired, which could lead to discrimination. And identity thieves could pose as an employer to confirm that stolen Social Security numbers will pass the system. At the moment, says a DHS-commissioned study, the safeguards in place do not prevent these misuses. "It's another stitching together of the national identity infrastructure," says Jim Harper of the libertarian Cato Institute. "We have to worry about the privacy consequences for average Americans." Not just presidential candidates...
...preferred the stage to the screen, but many will remember actor Paul Scofield best for his Academy Award--winning performance as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film version of A Man for All Seasons. Born in the south of England and trained in theater from an early age, Scofield led an intensely private life offstage but onstage captivated audiences with his precision and fervor. A master of Shakespearean roles, he played everyone from Henry VIII to Hamlet, also delivering memorable performances in parts ranging from Don Quixote to Salieri in a 1979 production of Amadeus...