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Is it even an argument at this point? Boston's Mayor Menino caused the Patriots' loss by planning the city's victory party a little too early and much too transparently. Last Wednesday, well before the unthinkable happened, the Herald was already proclaiming, "Tommy, you might as well have suited up for the hated Giants."

The Hasty Pudding, the filet mignon to the Harvard Lampoon's ground chuck, has announced the recipients of its Hasty Pudding award. This year, Charlize Theron is Woman of the Year, and Christopher Walken will be Man of the Year.

Scarlett Johansson was honored as the Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman of the Year today in Cambridge. She was cause of more traffic snarls in the Harvard Square area than the icy road conditions yesterday's storm brought. The festivities began with a parade through the streets of Harvard Square followed by a roast at Agassiz Theatre and a press conference, both on Radcliffe Yard. Being the Year of the Woman 2.0 (madam speaker Nancy Pelosi, madam president - to be, of Harvard - Drew Gilpin Faust, and madam presidential candidate Hilary Clinton) it's fitting that Scarlett received Hasty Pudding's golden Hasty Pudding Pot on what was once the campus of Harvard's sister institution, Radcliffe, now part of Harvard as an Institute for Advanced Study. Hasty Pudding's permanent home in Harvard Square is still under construction and is expected to be finished soon, but not before Ben Stiller comes to Cambridge to receive his award, so for the second year in a row the pudding pot was awarded to the Woman of the Year at the Agassiz Theatre rather than the Hasty home base.

Last year Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the student group at Harvard, brought Halle Berry and Richard Gere as honorees. Berry's parade route through the streets of Cambridge was a bit different than it had been for honorees past, the gentle handshake Gere was given just took place somewhere else. The change happened as The Pudding had been displaced from their quarters at 12 Holyoke Street for the first time since 1888. Construction on the site...