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...After one??s battled a life-threatening congenital disorder for nearly a decade, the 800 miles from Asheville, North Carolina, to Cambridge don’t seem so daunting. Neither does performing in front of a crowd of over 2000 at a Division I basketball game...
Instead, looming on the horizon, are postseason tournaments, which provide the final opportunity to reach one??s potential, to show one??s skill, and to claim a title for personal, team, and school glory...
...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...
...this-year-but-boy-is-it-about-time-she-won-already. The winner selection process, intrinsically tainted by Academy politics, is anything but quantitative—statistically, even the most impulsive civilian guesser is likely to make at least one correct prediction. This lends a satisfying, authoritative feel to one??s preferences regarding, for instance, Meryl Streep—who should be given an Oscar every year, by default, just to thank her for being Meryl Streep—versus Sandra Bullock—who, incredibly, is somehow still allowed to make films after appearing...
...than normal-weight coaches,” Roher said. “I had to find 120 coaches, so for each coach I looked at a bunch of pictures of them on Google Images and coded zero—no, they’re not fat and—one??yes, they...