On Wednesday the New York Film Critics Circle announced their top picks for this year.

Surprisingly, and more than anything, stupidly they announced that Josh Brolin was the recipient of  "Best Male Supporting Actor."

What the hell?

Now, I know that some people will argue that Heath Ledger does not necessarily deserve an Oscar just because...

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Earlier in the semester I wrote an article about Facebook and it generated quite a bit of buzz. I tried (unsuccessfully) to ween myself off of Facebook.  It lasted for about a month, and then I felt left out and went crawling back.

I still have a lot of the same issues with the website, but I'm learning to deal with it; however, the one thing ...

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Election time is full of news, and it's important, but the consequences of voting will take a while to come to fruition. 

One bit of election news that may be more relevant for Massachusetts residents is the status of Question 2.

It's not yet final, but it's looking like Question 2 is going to pass in Massachusetts.  All of the votes have no...

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It’s difficult to believe Bill O’Reilly would have the audacity to call his memoir A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity, but then again, this is the reactionary talking head who dared to talk family values while hassling a female producer with late night calls seeking phone sex. Yesterday, the Loofah Loving Marist/BU/Harvard alum made a thrilling appe...

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Talk about tag teaming! Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Tsien have just won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry together, after what can only be described as brilliant scientific collaboration and chemistry (oh snap!) The three were able to develop Green Fluorescent Protein, which though it may sound like a mere step above neon green eggs a...

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We’ve heard loads recently about Wall Street barons seeing their assets plummet, the credit crisis rearing its ugly head as banks suspend access to savings and loans, and the implosion of the American financial market as the spindly scaffolding created by speculation crumbles. But what does this mean literally for most Americans? For UC San Dieg...

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Sure education is important, but sometimes doesn’t it seem like the media glorifies a lack of education just a little bit? There are tons of congratulatory stories about billionaire dropouts and other successful flunkies.
 

Of course lots of people don’t attend college or dropout and still do very well in life. Take Snoop Dogg, for example, who...

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It’s easy sometimes to feel like you’re living in a bubble while in college. You probably live in a dorm, where janitors clean the bathrooms for you. You probably get away with waking up at 10:30 am for 11am classes. You probably have hours of free time on your hands to spend on a campus with thousands of people your age who also have hours of f...

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Unbeknownst to the world, the Global Language Monitor recently released their own rankings of the nation’s top colleges and universities based on the number of appearances they made in print and electronic media, and Harvard, Columbia and the University of Michigan took the three top spots.

For College OTR, the appearance of the University of ...

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Apparently causing a commotion doesn’t end after college. At least, not if you’re John Troy Miller, 41, and his wife Jennifer Miller, 36.

The well-dressed couple was not so well-behaved at a fancy hotel in Boston where they were arrested and charged with disturbing the peace, assault and battery, assault and battery on a police officer, trespa...

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Trojan Condoms released their third annual Sexual Health Report Card today, and the Ivy League took two of the top five spots and placed favorably overall.

For the uninitiated, the Sexual Health Report Card ranks 130 colleges and universities based on the quality and availability of sexual health services and resources on campus. And so, in th...

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Week after week we obsess over athletes’ bodies… who got hit where, who used theirs to run in a touchdown and who is looking hot (okay, maybe that’s just the women out there).
 

Now, a new center at Boston University’s School of Medicine is putting the focus on athletes’ brains. Twelve athletes have agreed to sign over their brains after death ...

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Is Cambridge, Massachusetts no longer safe for students?

In the last two weeks, four students – a Boston University woman and three Harvard graduate students – have been robbed near Harvard University. While the incidents are unrelated, students should avoid travelling in the area at night whenever possible.

The most recent incident, involvi...

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So, I was just in the process of writing my September 11th memories and my browser crashed. I was about three quarters of the way through my rather long and emotional weightyaccount when it happened, and I just can't see subjecting myself to retelling the taxing story.

Thinking about how stressful it can be to recount the day, I can't help but ...

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Oh snap! Poor old Billy Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. Warrett Buffet knocked the Microsoft nerd extraordinaire from his pedestal, and now there’s a new crop shaking their money makers. Two leaders are the 28-year-old Boston University alum, Nishita Shah, and entertainer/producer Tyler Perry.

Forbes has released its list of ...

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Don't forget to vote for YOUR town (I'm voting Chapel Hill, of course) for TitleTown USA!

Voting will continue through noon Sunday, with winners announced Monday, July 28 on Sportscenter.

May the best town win!

I’ve always been told that a good education is priceless. And at Berea College in Kentucky it is! The school uses its $1.1 billion endowment to provide a tuition-free education for low-income families only.
 

That gift comes with a price though. If you want to say hello to learning on the cheap, then be prepared to say goodbye to football teams,...

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First sex toy worker bees busily manufactured vibrators in "girl-friendly" shapes and colors. The Rabbit! It's Pink -- for girls! And now beauty chemists and marketers are releasing mascaras that vibrate, as everyone knows you are supposed to apply mascara to lashes by moving in side-to-side motion, gently working your way up, from base to tip.

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The vast and rocky relationship climate, soaked with social networking sites, random hook ups, and artful scheming, has not prepared us for the realities of kismet, chemically-charged romance. College students, unassumingly, walking the line of blissful connection or epic mess, resting on the wolf-bitten heels of physical attraction. Is there an...

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Man alive! I don't know how I missed this diamond in the Craigslist rough during the recent NBA championships, but thanks to some clever digital archaeology, the world will know the horror and idiocy of one Boston-area resident.

Trading your wife for Celtics tickets? I guess he's trying to save money for legal fees related to his impending div...

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