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...overseen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), an organization with roots dating back to the 1940s when a group of Los Angeles-based overseas writers formed to share industry contacts and information. At the time of its founding the organization was hardly a novel concept, following in the wake of both the defunct Hollywood Association of Foreign Correspondents and the Foreign Press Society. But after they dissolved, a group of journalists led by a correspondent for Britain's Daily Mail launched the HFPA in 1943. The founding motto: "Unity Without Discrimination of Religion or Race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Golden Globes | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...also learned that there is a strong positive correlation between how red my face is and how many photos of me pop up on facebook the morning after, so no matter how sloshed I got, I always remembered to set my alarm to 8 a.m. to wake-up, de-tag, and promptly pass out on my keyboard...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 21! Here Nan Comes! | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...pipette and graduated cylinder to measure the miniscule amounts I can drink, I am only slightly more experienced at being drunk than the most sheltered of pre-frosh. Perhaps as a result, every time that I’ve cleared the hurdle of staying awake past pre-festivities, I wake up the next morning to realize that I’ve done something horrific during the actual festivities. Last May, I threw a drink at the president-elect of a large campus organization, then announced to the room that he regularly wears women’s jeans. This Halloween...

Author: By Nan Ni, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 21! Here Nan Comes! | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...wake of the 2007 incident in which six such guards were responsible for the murders of 17 innocent Iraqis on a drive through Baghdad’s Nisoor Square, company spokespeople and the Pentagon have endlessly reminded the American public of the special exigencies of war, and the vital role that entities like Blackwater have in filling the gaps that an overstretched military cannot plug...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Hired Guns | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...most notable case occurred two years ago. Zach Puchtel ’07 wreaked havoc on all those left in his wake during the 2006-07 IM basketball season. The 6’6 point guard dunked, cut, and shot Cabot to the top (see “From the Big Ten to the Quad...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WALLY WORLD: The Line Must Be Drawn in IM Play | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

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