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False alarms are not particularly costly for the University. The first three per House per year are free. Starting at the fourth, the fire department bills the school on a sliding scale from $50 to $200, Reardon says...
...computation system so complex that only Bill James and his sabermetricians could understand or appreciate: two points for each critics' choice that won an Oscar, one point for each choice that got nominated, and none if the film or person was shut out. I call it the Oscrit scale...
...Over the four years of my survey, the best predictor of Oscar glory was the National Society of Film Critics (with 27 points on the Oscrit scale), followed by the National Board of Review (25), L.A. (24), Boston (23) and New York (20). Perhaps the NSFC has an advantage because it votes in early January, long after the other critics have convened. That group has three or four weeks to sniff out the zeitgeist and, more important, get a perspective on the serious holiday films the rest of us have been shown in early December and have little time...
...center at Harvard in the 1990s had put on a similar event. “My girlfriends, we always talk about what if we could use the stuff in each other’s closets. This is an opportunity for people to do this on a bigger scale,” said Alford. “It was the perfect opportunity to combine three things: socializing, getting free clothes, and contributing to a good cause,” Marine said that the Women’s Center is planning more events to raise its profile and reach...
...addition to the Freshman Costume Catwalk, the board plans to hold a Lion King sing-along night in the Science Center next Monday where free popcorn will be distributed. “The thing that I am pushing for is that it is possible to put on smaller scale events that, while still campus-wide, may not be so big that the whole campus could attend,” said Tessa C. Petrich ’07, chair of the CEB. But such small-scale events have not run up the bill this semester either. “Those...