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...roles. I've been really, really fortunate so far. Elegy has not been screened yet; I just finished doing that with Penélope Cruz. But my favorite is House of Sand and Fog because it stirred something inside me. I still love the character; it's left its thumbprint on me. They don't always do that, but he did. There was something supremely dignified about him. He was committed to his family and culture, determined to make America his home, torn between the past and the future and unable to build a present for himself and his family...
...repeatedly insisted that 75% of the Iraqi troops and police required to hold the country together were now in place. Where there were 100,000 security personnel a year ago, now 241,000 are in the field, he said. A third of last week?s operations had no Coalition thumbprint; they were conceived, planned and executed by Iraqis. Just over a third more were conducted jointly, leaving U.S. grunts to pound out less than a third on their own, a marked difference from a year ago. Two larger operations, one near the capital, the other to its north, had snared...
...Seidel’s political platform bears the thumbprint of an urban planner. Seidel, who holds a degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, proposes establishing wireless Internet throughout Cambridge and making the price of parking permits proportional to the size of vehicles that take up the city’s valuable curb space...
Your name, your address, your Social Security number, your phone number, your driver's license, your car registration, your credit history, your birth certificate, your real estate deeds, your legal history, your fishing license, your military record, your insurance claims, your thumbprint, your DNA. That is just some of the information that data aggregator ChoicePoint might have collected on you and millions of other Americans...
...Playboy is surely the most robust of these golden-age magazines, its legacy the longest-lasting. Not only did the Bunny Book make a fortune and an empire for its founder and true mascot, Hugh M. Hefner, but it left a smudged thumbprint on American society. That?s because Hefner had more than a business model; he had a Philosophy, which he expounded in his magazine each month for more than a decade. He may have been after something more enlightened than an empire. A republic. Playboy?s Republic...