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...William Wright-Swadel, director of the Office of Career Services, said that primary parents looking for flexible schedules within a certain field—such as medicine—often have to accept a lower paying job than those not requiring such hours...
...recruiting networks,” said Sean M. Mendy, co-founder of GetConnects and a 2005 Cornell graduate. “I saw friends of mine that had business degrees who were working really menial jobs and thought it was a waste of talent.” William Wright-Swadel, director of Harvard’s Office of Career Services, said he thought that GetConnects could help students develop all-important networks, but that minority students should feel comfortable utilizing all kinds of professional connections, minority or otherwise. “What I don’t want is students...
...itemize the myriad Hollywood references in Hot Fuzz; the exegetes of Internet Movie Database have already done that. I'll just say that, to judge from the citations here, Wright and Pegg's favorite movie auteurs are ... themselves. The film teems with lines and situations from Shaun of the Dead. "What's the matter, Dann - never taken a shortcut before?" says Pegg to Frost before vaulting over some backyard fences; same as in the earlier film. Or, one guy: "You want anything at the shop?" Other guy: "Cornetto." Or, Frost (with inane bravado): "I'll drive." Also, on a quick...
...great film critic Andrew Sarris once referred to the tendency of filmmakers to quote their own work as "self-reverential cinema." But Wright and Pegg borrow smartly from everyone else; why not from themselves? It thickens the parodic texture, gives a kick to their cultists; and besides, the jokes are funny. If American film-comedy writers have any sense, they'll start stealing from Hot Fuzz...
...running time suggests that Wright and Pegg are just a little more in love with their material than I am. But not much. That's why I'm willing to absolve them of any complicity in the Blacksburg massacre. These guys are from England, where the cops don't carry guns and the murder rate from firearms is minuscule. Their homage-burlesque of America's ultra-violent action epics springs from a movie love as innocent and politically remote as an American kid's fondness for science-fiction films. Film violence for Pegg and Wright is not a mirror...