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...What does a new director do on a sustained enterprise like the Potter films (or the James Bonds)? My guess is that, while the series? more or less permanent team keeps the furniture moving, so to speak, the man-for-hire attends to the film?s pace and the care and feeding of the actors. Newell did an exemplary job here, encouraging and eliciting a community of performance...
Successful writers are quick to deny that writing for the Lampoon guarantees a job; the path to the upper echelons of comedy writing is still rocky. “No one would hire a bad writer from Harvard over a talented one from somewhere else,” Michael L. Reiss ’81, former executive producer of “The Simpsons,” told The Crimson...
...union is now demanding a goal of 70 percent be written into the next contract.Wrinn said the 49 percent rate represents “good progress” toward the target, but noted that the low turnover rate among Harvard’s janitors makes it difficult to hire more full-time workers. Since the 2002 contract negotiation, annual turnover has ranged from 4.8 percent to 8.7 percent.“Harvard can’t create a new full-time position until two part-time jobs open up,” he explained.—Staff writer Candice...
...Still, when rich Chinese hire a security detail, protection isn't always their primary concern. Cui Fengxian, a Beijing lawyer, founded Beijing Capital Bodyguard Security Consultants, which in 2002 was the first firm of its kind to receive government approval to do business, because he believed China lacked adequate means to protect its richest citizens. Now he estimates that about 30% of his 200 clients hire his guards-all former secret-service members-for "ornamental" reasons. Cui travels with eight bodyguards himself and dresses them in long leather coats. "It's a question of image," he says. "[These...
...even criminal charges don’t intimidate some Harvard students. Joe said he thinks that even if he were to be arrested, he would easily be able to get out of it by having his parents hire good lawyers and by using a bit of his own legal savvy...