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Every show, award or list will have its doubters. The Oscars have made many goofs, but often, subsequent adulation vindicates such overlooked nominees. After receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, Charlie Chaplin got one of the longest standing ovations in Oscar history. I don't think he would have exchanged that for a competitive Oscar he missed out on during his career. Anurag Chatrath, EDINBURGH...
...dark: no plans, all instinct. Despite the fact that this escapade was one of many Gilberti family Italian road-trips in which my dad hugged the ancient hillsides at sickening speeds while I doled out peaks of Toblerone we’d purchased at the Autogrill, it takes the award for craziest. Since my grandfather had arrived at Ellis Island on a boat from Naples in 1925, the goal of this reverse voyage was to locate Papa’s birthplace, tool around the town, drink a caffé, and say we’d visited...
...rule would make it harder for people of color and women to own broadcast stations. Martin has also been the subject of widespread criticism from the civil rights community for other efforts that would hamper African-American television programmers such as a la carte pricing and his campaign to award large swaths of cable channel space to incumbent broadcasters at the potential expense of programmers of color. The civil rights community accused the FCC and its chairman of aping an “anti-diversity agenda.” Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein likened some of the chairman?...
...well as a bid for the NCAA Championships in two weeks.“It’s nice to have that title,” Stanton said of Christensen’s first-place finish. “It was also nice that they gave an award in honor of our coach who passed away last year, Paul Turner.”Former Harvard track and field coach Frank Haggerty was on hand to award Christensen the first Paul Turner High Jump Award. In the field events that took place primarily on Saturday, the Harvard squad had a tough...
...Academy has made many goofs, but often subsequent adulation compensates for its oversights. After receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, Charlie Chaplin got one of the longest standing ovations in Oscar history. I don't think he would have exchanged that experience for a competitive Oscar he missed out on during his career. Anurag Chatrath, Edinburgh...