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...years ago, when Kapur left Bollywood for Hollywood, America still struck him as the center of the creative universe. With a virtual monopoly on budgets and technical skill, L.A. was clearly the place to be for a foreign director with a single art-house hit, Bandit Queen. He was an immediate success. In 1998, Kapur directed Blanchett in Elizabeth, about the life of England's 16th century monarch. The movie was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one. Its magic, says Blanchett, lay in Kapur's slightly demented reinvention of period drama. "Elizabeth could have been incredibly musty," she says...
...fair, the CIA has internal guidelines that prohibit rendition unless the receiving country provides assurances that the suspect will not be tortured, and have assigned a nominal contingent to monitor compliance. Nevertheless, when pressed, CIA director Porter J. Goss, in Congressional testimony last month, admitted the virtual impossibility of verifying compliance in practice. “…of course once [the suspects] are out of our control, there’s only so much we can do.” Another senior government official interviewed by The New York Times said that “Nothing...
...Every month, food bloggers congregate in this virtual kitchen to share recipes based around a single ingredient or cooking style, and a host collates the entries, resulting in an eclectic cybercookbook. Some bloggers are professional chefs, some are hobbyists; some have 10 readers a day, some 10,000. But all are passionate...
...place where Friday night football is the only game in town, Moxon said, the Coyotes are heroes—both celebrities and saviors. Becoming starting quarterback gave him everything, from free beer at local convenience stores to a billboard with his very own face on it, as well as virtual exemption from local and federal...
DonorsChoose may be a virtual charity, but its effect on children is very real. Every shipment includes a disposable camera and guidelines for writing class thank-you notes. A fifth-grader in the Bronx reduced a regular donor to tears with this note: "No one has ever done anything that nice for me before ... I want to do something nice for you. Just let me know what you need, and I'll take care of it." Vani Khajuria, a North Carolina fourth-grader, wrote her patron, "My children's children's children will treasure this book." Eloquent proof that...