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...hotshot London policeman (co-writer Simon Pegg) is transferred to an apparently tranquil English village after showing up his superiors in this buddy-cop satire from the spoofmeisters behind Shaun of the Dead. All is not as it seems as Pegg (above right) and his lovably oafish sidekick investigate a series of bizarre deaths. The twosome pursue criminals so exuberantly and the violence is so spectacular, it's like Lethal Weapon but with brains--and scones...
...died trying to save his students from a mass murder committed on Holocaust Remembrance Day. There was the international-studies student who had seen the carnage at the Pentagon on 9/11 and wanted to be a peacemaker; he died in French class. There was the killer who signed into English class with a question mark, known by the few who knew him at all as one who hardly ever said a word to anyone--until the day he chose to start screaming and ended by shooting himself in the face, a final act of deletion...
...Seung-Hui was the mystery hiding in plain sight, a man who wore a hat and sunglasses inside, a student with no Facebook page. Talking to him, said English department head Lucinda Roy, "was like talking to a hole. He wasn't there most of the time." Even students who had lived with him knew virtually nothing about him; the simplest conversations--Where are you from? What's your major?--got a monosyllabic response. A "hello" was a big deal. They never heard him talk about weapons or killing or violence--because he never talked at all. "We just thought...
...Detroit and eventually to Centreville, Va., a suburb of Washington, where they owned a dry-cleaning business. The family looked American Dream--y: they lived in a tidy cream row house with a vegetable plot in back where they grew lettuce and tomatoes. The parents were quiet, their English limited, but they worked hard and saw their daughter Sun-Kung head off to Princeton as an economics major, their son to Virginia Tech to major in English...
...decade ago, Charles C. Savage ’98 was a Winthrop House English concentrator and publisher of The Harvard Advocate. On Monday, Savage brought in the first national reporting Pulitzer Prize for The Boston Globe in 24 years. In a series of articles, Savage’s reporting showed Bush’s frequent use of “signing statements”—official assertions by the president of his power to ignore certain provisions in laws he deemed unconstitutional. The statements are not confidential but Savage was the first to reveal their systematic...