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...preparing her two leads for a bedroom scene. It's a funny, delicate walk on the wild and wise side. But the top winner, in this fraught year, had to be a film about victims and survivors. For The Pianist's Szpilman (well played by Adrien Brody) and the half-million other Jews sardined into the Ghetto, the issue of individual survival was as capricious as the number of shells left in a Nazi's pistol. Great atrocities follow intimate ones; soon they had to ask whether European Jewry itself could survive. Polanski's view is unsentimental and acute...
...half-million people who live in Newfoundland have to deal with all sorts of problems—unemployment, population decrease, and the loss of their traditional culture, to name a few. Yet whenever you go to a Great Big Sea gig, the only things that really matter are where the beer guy is, and what song you get to sing along to next...
...been interviewing students of Arab descent nationwide in an attempt to keep tabs on the half-million international students currently enrolled in American universities, according to published reports earlier this week. One of the Sept. 11 hijackers entered the U.S. with a student visa...
Most notably, the bill would impose a six-month moratorium on new student visas to foreign students. It would also encourage the INS to implement a long-planned electronic system to track the half-million foreign students studying in the U.S. Currently, there is no consistent system of making sure students don’t overstay their visas and no way to enforce their legal obligations regarding academic work...
After the World Trade Center was bombed in 1993, Congress passed legislation ordering the Immigration and Naturalization Service to keep track of the approximately half-million foreigners studying in the U.S. The tracking system, which is set to be completed in 2003, would enable law enforcement officials to electronically access information about foreign students...