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...rare that anything, with the possible exception of sleeping, can hold one’s interest for four hours. But to a significant extent, the Academy Awards manages to do so, in a way that reflects the status shift in media that its broadcast entails. For the Oscars, celebrities are quite literally brought down to size—transported from a fifty-foot wide movie screen to a thirty-two-inch TV screen. The real genius of the Academy Awards broadcast is what it invites its viewers to do: fancy ourselves among the elite, if not somewhere slightly above them...
...team and actually ate some of the lukewarm food. But if you watch the scene closely enough, you’ll see that none of the characters really eat. They’ll just kind of get a bite of food on their fork, talk, and hold...
Weekly community dinners, for one thing, are a great idea in principle, as a way to encourage house community without excluding non-residents the rest of the time. However, three of the most popular river houses (Quincy, Leverett and Kirkland) all hold community dinners on Thursdays, so all non-residents who would normally go to these dining halls, as well as residents who want to eat with friends who aren’t residents, must find somewhere else to eat. Spreading these community dinners out over different nights would reduce stress on the remaining dining halls, while still fostering house...
...While the press tends to obsess over who has the majority of the House and Senate in Washington, it is the gubernatorial contests that can have as much or more impact on America's governance, policy and politics in the long run. Republicans still hold their share of big-state governors' mansions, but Democrats have in recent years controlled the top seats in key battleground states such as Michigan, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio. Now, the GOP has a very good chance to take over all of those states, while hanging on to many of the slots they already have...
...federal ministry buildings pancaked in the Jan. 12 earthquake - and why, in 2008, 91 students and teachers died when their school in a Port-au-Prince suburb collapsed. The school's owner was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after admitting he barely even used mortar to hold its concrete blocks together. (See pictures of the Chile earthquake aftermath...