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...Hollywood’s sound and visual effects will ruin the text’s literary merit, but the cinematic techniques of “Memoirs of a Geisha” actually enhance the tone and mood of the story. In the opening scene, in which Chiyo and her sister are ripped away from their home, the lighting is very dim with dark bluish tones, and it is continually raining. This expressive lighting reoccurs throughout the film to reflect the protagonist’s suffering as a geisha —moving scenes such as when Chiyo searches...
After one awkward spat too many with the Stones, Meredith beckons her younger sister Julie (Claire Danes) to join the fun and help smooth things over; unsurprisingly, incestuous, goggly-eyed sibling flirtation ensues between Julie and her sister’s fiancé, while Meredith starts to fall for Everettt’s own brother...
Enter a different breed of M.B.A.: social entrepreneurs like Priya Haji, 35, Siddharth Sanghvi, 30, and David Guendelman, 28, who last year founded the giftware company World of Good. A for-profit, socially responsible start-up that makes grants to a nonprofit sister organization, World of Good has impressed venture capitalists who usually put their money into the latest technological innovation. But the business plan put forward by the Berkeley M.B.A.s--which won this year's Global Social Venture Competition--has VCs convinced that there's also money to be made from handmade silk scarves, woven bags, beaded jewelry and "nonviolent...
...always astonished when smart, educated parents turn to cookie-cutter solutions for raising their children. Guess what? Just like adults, kids are unique individuals. What works for one may not work for another. My sister told me, "Listen to your daughter. She will show you how to raise her." That is the best advice for any parent. DARIEN WERFHORST San Francisco
...much time at the studio together.”The lights flicker off and a square of light pops up on a screen at the end of the table. Images appear and start moving across the screen. The 10-minute film follows a pregnant woman—the sister of one of the student filmmakers, Roberto C. Patino ’06—through her everyday life. She first appears on the screen, doing laundry and making breakfast. Later, the camera skims over a variety of inanimate objects in her life: a framed wedding picture, a Pilates pregnancy edition...