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...general critique of the Academy Awards was not quite the discussion I anticipated having, and I will probably have to wait for another column. But I will sum up my estimation of the Oscars by stating that they’re probably the most consistently reliable artistic awards ceremony in existence, and for all their miscalculations, have made fewer mistakes than, say, the Nobel Peace Prize (even the headache-inducing buffoonery of Roberto Benigni was slightly less egregious than awarding Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger in the same year...
...Staff writer Michael R. James can be reached at mrjames@fas.harvard.edu. His column appears every Friday...
Gossip Guy would like to use the remaining inches of the column to present the first annual Ruth C. Havel '05 Award, for best sense of humor in the face of overwhelming gossip and most deft use of plausible deniability, to none other than Ruth C. Havel '05 herself. In a week of heightened sensitivities on campus, Harvard’s very own master and commander, Havel, instead of getting mad, got revenge, as only she knows how. Ouch...
...Another said, “Growing up, my sister and I always said we'd never marry anyone who couldn’t beat us in tennis.” In the best part of the section, Lois Smith Brady’s “Vows” column, grooms’ polo-playing abilities are regularly vaunted beyond belief...
...admit that some of the matches are kind of sweet. In one “Vows” column, an heiress fell in love with a man who led foraging tours in Central Park, instructing people which wild plants were and weren’t edible. Asked if he ate the dandelion roots served at their wedding, the heiress’s father quipped, “Listen, I worry about the salad at Le Cirque, never mind what comes out of my own lawn...