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...campus before the pub is completed, according to Corker. The general manager will oversee student employees, other staff, and programming structure. Corker said he is excited about many of the upcoming pub features, including free meals for students who meet with their teachers or teaching fellows, a Thursday trivia night, and karaoke nights. Corker also said he has made a deal with a local brewing company—which is owned by three Harvard alumni—to brew a Harvard specialty beer. The name and flavor of the long-awaited Harvard beer will be announced at an unveiling event...
...piece. (This year, the orchestra played softly through each of the spoken thank-you speeches, making the winners? comments sound like song cues in an old musical.) But Haggis had been on stage earlier, as a Screenplay winner. Besides, his victory was unique, at least to lovers of Oscar trivia. He became the first person to have written two consecutive Best Pictures (after last year?s Million Dollar Baby). Haggis was also, by my calculations, the first member of the Church of Scientology to win Best Picture...
...Harper, 46, a policy wonk, hockey-trivia buff and father of two, is one of the youngest PMs to occupy 24 Sussex Drive. He may also be one of the most forthright. "What's going to shock the nation is he means every word he says," says Jim Hawkes, a retired Calgary Tory M.P. who gave Harper his first job in politics, as a researcher in his Ottawa office. Although he will lead a slender, 124-member minority Conservative caucus in the 308-seat House of Commons, Harper seems resolved to fulfill the campaign pledges that brought the Conservatives...
...while we may have long suspected that a cast of camera-smitten future trivia answers can't really be that interesting without professional help, details of how these shows manipulate reality have begun leaking out--because of a dispute with the employees hired to do the jiggering. Those staff members--who create story lines, coach interview answers and cobble together video--say their work amounts to writing, and they are suing their networks and production companies, arguing that they deserve to be covered by the Writers Guild of America...
...Impress your friends and family with Olympics trivia! Along with the latest happenings from the 2006 games, this fan site provides Web surfers with a slew of background information on Olympics history. http://www.janecky.com/olympics/wintergames/2006w.html