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...debate began with four candidates—Michael C. Koenigs ’09 was “assassinated” midway through his opening remarks—and saw frontrunners Andrea R. Flores ’10 and Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 trade barbs about topics like Schwartz’s final club membership and the extent to which the UC should work with the Harvard administration. The third serious candidate in the race is Charles T. James...
...courses. Two of the insider tickets have platform points that would mean major changes in the Registrar’s office. The platform of Andrea R. Flores ’10 suggests changing freshman grading to “pass/no record”, similar to the system at MIT. Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 advocates in his presidential platform extending the add/drop deadline from five weeks to eight weeks. Both such changes would require approval by a vote of the Faculty, which could require more than a year of committee wrangling and cajoling administrators. Schwartz and running mate...
Presidential candidate and Student Affairs Committee vice-chair Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 lauded Sundquist for his advocacy, willingness to work with others on the UC, and outreach to students...
...best film, Slumdog was the choice of the NBR and the D.C. crowd, Milk in New York and, in L.A., Pixar's summer hit WALL-E (which won for Animated film in the other groups). Best directors were David Fincher for Benjamin Button (NBR), Danny Boyle for Slumdog (D.C. and L.A.) and Mike Leigh for Happy-Go-Lucky (New York). Screenplay prizes were allotted to Slumdog, Benjamin Button, Happy-Go-Lucky, Rachel Getting Married and Gran Torino. Art-house habituées may wish to know that Man on Wire was judged best documentary by all four groups (the only...
...critics' awards. (Though some magazine reviewer named her Best Actress of 2008.) Well, she snagged a Globe nomination for Actress - Drama in Revolutionary Road and Supporting Actress in her other December drama, The Reader; both were among the five finalists for Best Motion Picture - Drama. The others were Slumdog, Benjamin Button and one film, Frost/Nixon, that didn't figure prominently in the critics' fancies. (Doubt was aced out of a Best Drama nod, but did earn nominations for all four principal actors: Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and - woo hoo! - Viola Davis...