week4

Julianne Moore named best actress

(CNN)Julianne Moore won the Screen Actors Guild award for outstanding performance by a female actor in a leading role for her performance in "Still Alice."

With her win, the actress adds to her trophies for her work as a woman struggling with early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Moore, who's nominated for a best actress Oscar and similar honors at the BAFTA and Independent Spirit Awards, has already taken home Golden Globe, Critics Choice, Gotham and Hollywood Film Awards this season.

She's also won her second SAG award, taking home her first trophy from the acting union in 2012 for her work as Sarah Palin in Game Change.

Moore began her remarks by talking about her soap opera past, saying "When I was on As the World Turns..." The audience cheered and she said, "Yeah!" before explaining how she was excited when the show wrote both good and evil twin roles for her but then discovered it was "super boring to act by myself." (Birdman's Zach Galifianakis later referenced her remark when he and his co-stars in the Fox Searchlight film accepted the SAG award for best cast, stepping to the microphone and repeating, "When I was on As the World Turns...")

"What I really loved, what I really craved was being with another actor, and feeling that intimacy and that excitement and that thrill of getting to know somebody in that way. And that's what keeps me coming back to acting, again and again and again." With that, she thanked her "partners" in the Still Alice cast, her co-stars Hunter Parrish, Kate Bosworth, Alec Baldwin and Kristen Stewart.

She also thanked her "professional partners: The people who have supported every weird choice I've ever made." That group included her CAA agents Josh Lieberman and Kevin Huvane and his brother, her publicist Stephen Huvane ("I just heard now the 'h' is silent") and "my longtime manager and friend of 25 years, Evelyn O'Neill, [at Management 360]."

She concluded by saying, "When I was 17 and decided I wanted to be an actor, it didn't seem possible because I'd never met a real actor, so I want to say to all the kids in the drama club, 'You guys are the real actors.'"

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Moore beat fellow nominees Jennifer Aniston (Cake), Reese Witherspoon (Wild), Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) and Felicity Jones (The Theory of Everything).

Cate Blanchett won best actress at the SAG Awards last year, on her way to winning an Oscar for her role in Blue Jasmine.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/25/entertainment/feat-sag-awards-2015-julianne-moore-best-actress/index.html

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO- Julianne Moore

   WHEN- February 22, 2015

   WHAT-  won the Screen Actors  Guild  award for outstanding performance by a female actor

   WHY- Not given

   WHERE-Not given

Keywords：

   1.intimacy親密

   2. audience 觀眾

   3.nominees被提名的人

   4.Independent自主的

   5.trophy有身分的

week 3

Taxi Drivers Protest Uber and Lyft, Stop DC Traffic

Taxi drivers are protesting rules that would allow Uber and Lyft to permanently operate in the nation's capital

A taxi driver protest against app-based car share companies UberX, Lyft, and Sidecar tied up downtown traffic in the nation’s capital Wednesday.

Local news reports showed lines of drivers, sitting parked in their cabs along Pennsylvania Avenue in northwest Washington on Wednesday between Freedom Plaza and the district’s City Hall. For about two hours on Wednesday, traffic along the route snarled as police officers issued tickets to some drivers for blocking flow of traffic, according to WJLA.

The protest was held in response to new regulations for the app-based companiesintroduced in the DC Council that would allow companies like Uber and Lyft to permanently operate in the city as long as they conduct background checks for all drivers, provide minimum $1 million insurance coverage, and never accept street hails, among other rules. The legislation moved out of committee on Tuesday and will face a final vote later this month.

Uber has praised the legislation, but theWashington D.C. Taxi Operators Association, which is affiliated with Teamsters and organized the protest, says the rules give companies like Uber and Lyft a “competitive advantage.” Thousands of cab drivers showed up to protest Wednesday, according to a release from organizers.

This was the second time taxi drivers have protested in Washington this year, with a June protest snarling traffic for hours in downtown DC. Similar protests have been staged inBoston and San Francisco in the taxi industry’s ongoing battle with app-based services who they say are impeding their business while facing much less scrutiny and regulation.

http://time.com/3482420/taxis-uber-lyft-washington-dc/

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO- UberX, Lyft

   WHEN- Oct.2014 10

   WHAT- Taxi drivers are protesting rules that would allow Uber and Lyft to permanently operate

   WHY- Not given

   WHERE-

Keywords：

   1.regulation標準

   2. legislation立法

   3.ongoing進行的

   4.scrutiny監視

   5. snarl吠

weak 2 -Top architect named: Tour Toyo Ito's unusual buildings

Top architect named: Tour Toyo Ito's unusual buildings

Seoul-born, 71-year-old Japanese architect Toyo Ito is this year's recipient of the industry's most coveted prize.

On Monday, the architect was announced the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize winner, joining past Pritzker Laureates that include Frank Gehry, Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas.

"As I did not expect it, I felt really grateful and honored to be awarded the prize," Ito told CNN.

In addition to his abstract, beautiful buildings, the Tokyo-based architect is also known for his extensive work on communal centers as part of the reconstruction in Japan following the 2011 tsunami.

Ito, whose family ran a miso (bean paste) factory following his father's early death when Ito was 12, has said he wasn't interested in architecture as a youth. He began taking an interest while attending the University of Tokyo.

Throughout his career, Ito's designs have been unusual, vivid and minimalistic -- from the aluminum house he designed for his sister to the Sendai Mediatheque in Miyagi, Japan, which he describes as his professional highlight.

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The Pritzker committee jury raved about his lifework of defying standard distinctions. It will officially bestow its award at a ceremony in Boston on May 29.

Together with the 40 employees of his namesake firm, Toyo Ito & Associates, the architect is currently working on projects in Taiwan, Singapore and Japan.

"I travel 50 to 60 times per year for work," says Ito. "I love any place where I work."

At Princeton in 2009, he lectured on the development of the grid system in architecture, pointing out that while the system allows for rapid construction, "it also made the world's cities homogenous" and that "it made the people living and working there homogenous, too."

His design aesthetic is "modifying the grid slightly" so buildings can have closer relationships to their environment.

"Not fixing my style, I keep extending the possibilities of architecture," he told CNN. "In other words, I would like to unbridle architecture from various restrictions and give it more freedom."

The photo gallery above illustrates how Ito is changing and influencing landscapes of cities around the world.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/19/travel/toyo-ito-architecture-prize/index.html

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO- Tour Toyo Ito

   WHEN- March 20, 2013

   WHAT- Seoul-born Japanese architect Toyo Ito wins highest prize for architecture

   WHY- Not given

   WHERE-

Keywords：

   1.vivid 生動的

   2. minimalism 簡易主義 

   3.aluminum 鋁

   4.illustrates 圖解

   5. distinctions 著名

8-Mexico Officially Declares Missing Students Dead

Mexico Officially Declares Missing Students Dead

MEXICO CITY — Four months after the abduction of 43 rural college students shook the nation and set off a political crisis, Mexico’s attorney general on Tuesday officially declared the students dead, saying confessions and forensic evidence supported the theory that their bodies were incinerated near a garbage dump.

The attorney general, Jesús Murillo Karam, delivered a detailed account of the case that did not divert much from what was previously known. Yet he went beyond hints that the students had been killed to declare that after an “exhaustive, serious” investigation, “the evidence allows us to determine that the students were kidnapped, killed, burned and thrown into the river.”

Mr. Murillo Karam, in what appeared to be an effort to convince an increasingly skeptical public that investigators had solved the crime, showed photographs of charred remains, snippets of videotaped confessions and the crime scene. He also disclosed that nearly 100 people had been arrested, 39 confessions obtained and thousands of fragments of human remains recovered.

Over somber music, he played a short video account of the night of the crime, based on what investigators had learned.

The case has led to a series of mass protest marches, most recently on Monday, and raised doubts about the rule of law in Mexico. It has helped send President Enrique Peña Nieto’s approval ratings plummeting to levels not seen by a Mexican president in two decades.

The president has promised to revamp local policing and adopt measures to address widespread impunity, but analysts have said he also does not wish a security crisis to define a term that he had hoped would be devoted to improving a slowing economy and buffing Mexico’s image.

In a speech shortly before Mr. Murillo Karam spoke, Mr. Peña Nieto suggested it was time for the nation to move on, even as the public harbors doubts.

“In this sorrowful, tragic and painful moment in the history of Mexico, we can’t be trapped. We can’t be stuck there,” he said. “We have to give it attention. There has to be justice. There has to be punishment for those who were responsible for these regrettable acts, but we have to take the course of continuing to assure that Mexico has a better future.”

The students, from Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burgos, a rural teachers college in Ayotzinapa, about an hour’s drive from Acapulco, had gone to another city, Iguala, on Sept. 26 to collect money and steal buses to use in a protest march in Mexico City. But the mayor, José Luis Abarca, who has since been arrested, ordered the police to detain the students, and they were turned over to a drug gang known as Guerreros Unidos, Mr. Murillo Karam said.

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-  the abduction of 43 rural college students

   WHEN JAN 2015

   WHAT-Mexico Officially Declares Missing Students Dead

   WHY-not given

   WHERE- Mexico

   HOW-not given

KeyWords:

 evidence證明

exhaustive徹底的

plummet暴跌

sorrowful傷心的

sophisticated精密的