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...cleared its last pop culture hurdle?an Academy Award for best song. Three 6 Mafia became the first rap act to win on Oscar night, for Hustle & Flow?s It?s Hard Out Here for a Pimp. They also introduced the Academy to the latest high-end accessory?diamond-encrusted teeth. How about a set in next year?s swag...
...Leave it to Clooney, winner of the night?s first award, to address the question whether Hollywood was out of touch. He said that movie industry had addressed questions of civil rights and AIDS when the rest of America was afraid of them. ?I?m proud to be part of this Academy,? he said as the applause cresecendoed, ?proud to be part of the community, and proud to be out of touch.? He exited to cheers. If there were four strong men nearby, he would have been carried on their shoulders...
...individual honors at this weekend’s Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League Championships in East Meadow, N.Y., but troubles with its depth led the Crimson to a second-place finish behind Princeton.With Cornell’s Michael Smit, sophomore Geoff Rathgeber and senior David Cromwell shared the Moriarty Award, the prize given to the top individual swimmer. Cromwell won three individual and three relay events in the last EISL Championships of his career, setting records in the 100-yard backstroke, the 200-yard backstroke, and the 200-yard medley relay. Rathgeber set a school and meet record...
...Crimson’s 77-66 home loss to Yale. BEST OF WHAT’S NEW Entering the final weekend of the season, Cornell guard Adam Gore and Harvard guard Drew Housman seemingly both had the inside track to the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award. Gore, who was the prohibitive favorite after eight consecutive double-digit scoring efforts, cooled down late in the season, giving Housman a chance to steal the honor with a solid weekend and a strong head-to-head performance. It wasn’t to be, however, as Gore knocked down four threes...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) awarded a $2,000 grant to the Mission Hill After School Program last night in a controversial meeting that lasted almost four hours and prompted charges that the move would set a precedent of fiscal irresponsibility. The UC overruled a recommendation from the council’s Finance Committee (FiCom), which had voted not to award Mission Hill any of the $2,500 that the group had requested for vans. Mission Hill sends volunteers to housing developments in Roxbury four afternoons a week to tutor and mentor children ages five to 13. More than 80 Mission Hill...