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...Training Day Alonzo's a rogue narc working the Los Angeles streets where he learned his mean lessons. On a single very violent day, covered at top speed with harsh intensity by director Antoine Fuqua, Alonzo has to murderously bust a drug dealer he has been stalking for a decade. At the same time, he's got to pay off some Russian mafiosi he has offended or end up dead himself. Oh, yeah, it's also his first day on the job with a new partner, an idealistic and ambitious square named Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), who needs...
...long as Training Day stays tightly focused on the struggle between the two cops, the movie is first rate. Fuqua has a gift not just for quick movement but also for coherence. He lays out the geography of his sequences clearly and moves his people through them logically, qualities often missing in action films, which are so often sold out to explosive spectacle...
These borderless B schools underscore a broader educational trend. Universities are now the fifth largest U.S. exporter of services abroad--topping entertainment and health care--and raked in $10 billion last year. In the past two years, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in Durham, N.C., has opened an outpost in Frankfurt, Germany, while Harvard has established research facilities in Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. And in April, Cornell announced that it would open a branch of its medical school in Qatar...
...same question might be posed of director Andy Tenant. It seems that Hollywood today seems to be bringing in a new generation of hack directors to usher in a new, more clichd and stale era of movie making . For example, Antoine Fuqua, directing a feature for the first time in The Replacement Killers (another Chow performance) had only commercial and music video directing credits before taking the helm of a full feature length film. The result was high-gloss and largely empty cinema, concentrating largely on impressive visuals but yielding flat and dull content -- which brings us to Andy Tennant...
...business made such a case, it might have been able to hang on to a proven performer like Valjeanne Estes. A graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, with a master's in engineering from Georgia Tech, Estes, 36, worked in the booming telecommunications industry before heading for her M.B.A. Upon graduation from Fuqua, she interviewed with MCI and SkyTel. "But I wanted something that reflected my priorities, and I didn't see that in the corporate world," Estes says. She eventually became coordinator of a summer camp devoted to teaching girls about economic independence, putting some...