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...rights to life or property—never deserves to be punished by having her rights violated. People should be allowed to do what they want with their lives and property, including making mutually consensual agreements with others, without having their lives or property taken away by a private actor or by the government. Some well-known philosophers, like John Locke and the late Harvard professor Robert Nozick, are deontological libertarians.Most libertarians, like the late philosopher Friedrich A. Hayek, humorist Dave Barry, journalist John Stossel, and actor Clint Eastwood, evade such easy categorization. They find value in both lines...
...country from my point of view," Jones says, "and Arriaga feels that way about his country. You can't spend a lot of time in the Rio Grande Valley without realizing that those countries are the same." The two men's collaboration worked out handsomely: they won the actor and screenplay prizes at Cannes...
...direct it? To be in control. "That's a good motivation right there, to satisfy one's lust for creative control," he says. And he adds jokingly, "As the director, I also had a part that might appeal to a very expensive actor so much that he might work for almost nothing"?and in the bargain, give an eloquently terse reading of a man's man, driven by urges that are too deep to be expressed in tears or shouts but are visible on Jones' face?if you watch him as closely as he watches the world...
...showed love?say,through food?were different from those of the families Liu saw on TV, who seemed to say "I love you" all day long. Liu even signed up for Mandarin and Chinese-history courses at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Today she is an actor and producer, and her latest project is a kids' TV show called Bakaboo. Its goal: to teach Mandarin to American-born Chinese...
...actor doesn't need to think up a picture. He can just take it over, make its personality his. Hustle & Flow might sputter without the seductive screen intelligence of Terrence Howard. An actor can anchor a movie, as Maria Bello does in A History of Violence, or steal it, like Gong Li in Memoirs of a Geisha...