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...list of Oscar's missteps, I would add Gentlemen's Agreement over Great Expectations in 1947, Charlton Heston (Ben Hur) over James Stewart (Anatomy of a Murder) in 1959 and Elizabeth Taylor (Butterfield 8) over Deborah Kerr (The Sundowners) in 1960. At or near the top of the list of missing nominations, I would place both Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant (His Girl Friday) in 1940. Paul J. Corigliano, SAN MARCOS, CALIF...
...Lowell House Masters’ residence. The unobtrusively-placed and sepia-toned images, which call to mind memories of the College’s conservative past, capture a newly constructed Lowell House standing in perfect form, sidewalks smooth and bricks still tightly in place. Stamped in white lettering near the bottom of each reads the year 1930. That year, the House’s chief eponym, Abbott Lawrence Lowell—a notorious homophobe and organizer of a secretive court that once expelled eight Harvard students suspected of being gay—still reigned as University president. The proximity...
...recently diagnosed with a case of conjunctivitis that he blames on goggles he wore during lab. “That was a damper big time,” complains the pink-eyed Daniel E. Farrell ’10. “I couldn’t go near my girlfriend on Valentine’s Day.” All chemistry labs require students to wear goggles, a safety regulation mandated by the American Chemical Society—but Farrell isn’t so sure that students make use of the alcohol-based lens wipes that are meant...
...inconsistent competitors fell by the wayside. The same has happened in the biggest reality competition of all time: American Idol. Kelly Clarkson, winner of American Idol’s first season, and Jordin Sparks, winner of the last, both followed the narratives of non-frontrunners who broke out big near...
...into the penalty.“[With] the crowd, it can get away from you if you lose your emotions, how loud they are,” Taylor said. “We did a good job sticking to our game plan.”After tying things up near the end of the second period, the Big Red came out in the third looking the hungriest it had all night. The Crimson once again found itself scrambling to clear the puck from its zone, only to see Cornell dump it right back in and resume its attack.While...