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...love story, a prophecy and a fairy tale (Pinocchio, to be exact) in the guise of a science-fiction film, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence represents the collaboration and collision of two master filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, who spent parts of more than 15 years on the project; and Steven Spielberg, whom Kubrick finally asked to direct it, and who did, from his own screenplay, after Kubrick's death in 1999. The film, whose genesis and shooting have long been cocooned in secrecy, opens next week...
Nathalie Feix grew up in Switzerland, spent her undergraduate years at the University of Geneva and earned a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics. When she decided to study law, though, she skipped Europe's elite institutions and enrolled at the University of Miami. Why? Feix, 26, who worked for Hewlett-Packard in Geneva last summer, explains that U.S. law schools have "law reviews, moot court, judicial clerkships, litigation training--things that aren't available in Europe...
...another reason: U.S. law is becoming the lingua franca of international business. Last year 1,400 foreign nationals enrolled in standard three-year programs at U.S. law schools. An additional 2,800 enrolled in master of laws programs--a 62% increase since 1996. Most of these master's students have earned law degrees in other countries and find the programs attractive because they can usually be completed in one year...
...calm. He looked in the eyes of the witnesses - the media, his lawyers, and those whose lives he had forever and horrifically altered. He gave no statement, but he had copied out "Invictus," William Ernest Henley's ode to Victorian conquest, which contains the famous line, "I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul...
...with extreme contradictions just as the characters live in a state of perpetual untruth and obfuscation. But I doubt Rall thought about it that much. Or if he did, he failed, because "2024," unlike its inspiration, never gives you the feeling of being in the grips of a narrative master and certainly never makes you think more than a second about your own life...