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...happens that actors represent the largest craft in the Motion Picture Academy, accounting for about a quarter of its 6,000-or-so voters. So the SAG prize is a good survey not just of their preferences but of the entire membership...
...night's Saggies (or whatever they're called - actually, the Actor, and blechh to that uninspired nickname). It was that the indie comedy Little Miss Sunshine won the Best Ensemble award, beating Babel, Bobby, The Departed and Dreamgirls. Because Crash burst out off the pack last year with a SAG win in the same category, and upset Brokeback Mountain to take the Oscar for Best Picture, Sunshine's victory has to spur it at least the realm of Serious Speculation...
That arrangement may help astronomy break through a size barrier that it reached in 1948, when technicians completed work on the famous 200-in. glass mirror for the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar; beyond that size, glass mirrors tend to sag and distort un-acceptably, affected both by their own weight and by changes in temperature. The only larger mirror in the world, a 236-in. monolith atop Mount Semirodriki in the Soviet Union, is apparently hopelessly flawed and has done little significant work since being completed in 1974. One solution to the size problem is to make several smaller...
...President Cheng Zhu said that the HGC e-mailed the paper to the search committee yesterday and also shared the report with Matthew J. Murray, chair of the University-appointed Student Advisory Group (SAG) for the nine-member presidential search committee...
...SAG released a summary of its survey results to The Crimson, identifying “broad themes” gleaned from the 2,581 students who responded to the online survey...