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Rinko Kikuchi's breakthrough performance as Chieko, a deaf-mute teenager in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, was so convincing that co-star Cate Blanchett at first assumed the 26-year-old Japanese actress really couldn't speak. It's the kind of talent that has propelled Kikuchi from obscurity to an Oscar nomination-the first for a Japanese actress in 49 years. Kikuchi talks to Time's Michiko Toyama about Babel, isolation and her newfound fame...
This meet showcased the up-and-coming talent on the Harvard team...
...three days but the Crimson used every swimmer on its championship roster to inch closer throughout the competition.“At our dual meets during the year, we need to win as a team but the focus is less on depth than on talent,” said Papadakis, who is also a Crimson editor. “If you win an event, you get nine points and the second through fifth places don’t match the first in points. But at Ivies, it’s all about depth—it goes...
...That's unlikely to dent Harry's enthusiasm for action. Displaying an unexpected talent for the demotic in an interview to mark his coming of age in 2005, the young officer said, "There's no way I'm going to... sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country...
...course, is the visa system, which ought to raise the annual limit. The H-1B program brings valuable expertise to U.S. industry and helps retain skilled workers educated in American institutions. Under current immigration rules, America risks educating some of the world’s brightest students and best talent, only to watch them take their skills elsewhere after graduation...