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...office is expected to take a dip Sunday night - at least Hollywood hopes it does, since the industry has labored frantically to jack up the Oscar ceremony's sagging ratings. The show's producers have packed the on-camera guest list with young stars from The Twilight Saga and So You Think You Can Dance. More important, the Motion Picture Academy expanded its list of Big Picture nominees from five to 10, hoping that more hits would be included, since the highest-rated Oscar shows in the past 15 years were when the big prizes went to the megahits Titanic...
...then added the ranking numbers for each House to determine its overall ranking. As this week progresses, we will be posting the House reviews in reverse rank order. You’ll find out which House made it to the top of our list on Thursday...
House spirit: Although some people come back to Cabot only to sleep, Cabot offers a very pleasant and intimate community for people who spend any time in the House. The House list is usually full of routine requests and announcements, but sometimes debates (most recently, one on pornography) get everyone riled up. House Committee-sponsored events usually are fairly low-key get-togethers, but there are a few big events every year, including a catered Festivus dinner and the annual Dutch Auction...
Once all 12 pieces were completed, we redistributed them among the reviewers for careful perusal. Only then was each writer asked to submit a list of rankings for the Houses. (Yes, they were required to include their own Houses in these lists, but no, not all of them ranked their own Houses as first...
...Another major wild card this time is the Kurds. In the last elections, the two ruling parties of the Kurdish regional government - the Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq - voted lock-step for a Kurdish list, giving them significant leverage with Arab Iraqi parties in post-election negotiations. But though they joined Maliki's ruling coalition and formed a government together, the Kurdish ruling parties complain that Maliki hasn't delivered on his promises to return disputed areas to Kurdish authority. This time, the Kurds may be tempted into an alliance with the anti-Maliki Shi'ites. (See pictures of Iraq...