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...Society of Film Critics and the New York Film Critics' Circle. In each group I tallied looked the so-called six major categories - film, director, actor, actress, supporting actor and supporting actress - to see which awards matched with the Academy's. To these I applied a computation system so complex that only Bill James and his sabermetricians could understand or appreciate: two points for each critics' choice that won an Oscar, one point for each choice that got nominated, and none if the film or person was shut out. I call it the Oscrit scale...
...four short days of campaigning, Harvard turned from a sleepy university where research for papers never begins until two hours before they are due and students cannot make it to early 11 a.m. section into a buzzing center of uber-competency. Platforms were drafted. Supporters were organized through complex algorithms. Slogans were crafted and pushed through numerous study groups. Strategy meetings in their Pentagonesque fashion prepared candidates for every contingency from Canada invading the U.S. to the obscure. Students hadn’t been this motivated since applying to college. However, the most amazing aspect of the process...
...They fear that New Orleans could be viewed as not taking corruption seriosuly. "The national perception of this - 'How did they reelect a guy with $90,000 in his freezer' - is not what I'd consider the truth," says demographer and political analyst Elliott Stonecipher. "This is far more complex. And I would ask the people of this country, especially those that are in a position to make a difference in New Orleans and Louisiana, to wait until this whole thing runs its course...
Lillian Ritchie ’08 also performs commendably in “Merge” as a businesswoman who attempts to explain a traumatic travel experience to her increasingly upset husband (Hoagland). Ritchie presents a complex character competently in this drama, presenting a believable mix of the rational and irrational in her role...
...lethargically paced drama ensues when Ellie discovers that the stranger with whom she has fallen in love is Hesione’s playboy husband Hector (Harry M. Adamson). It continues with a stream of visitors who continually add to the angles of a complex love triangle. But the true excitement lies not simply in Shaw’s plot, reminding one of “The OC,” but also in the idiosyncratic characters that the actors so vividly bring to life...