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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joslin also garnered the Ivy League Player-of-the-Year award. This is an especially remarkable honor considering she injured her ankle during the fall, forcing her to miss the first three weeks of practice...
...Award of paid leaves for junior faculty who spend a large part of their time doing counselling or serving on committees, eight week maternity leaves and unpaid leaves or contract extensions under special circumstances...
Goal(s) of the Week: Split this award into categories--most exciting, most creative and most skillful--and MacDonald would still walk away with virtually all the honors...
Rushdie's next novel, Shame (1983), was another roistering allegory, this time refracting recent events in Pakistan. It too was nominated for the Booker Prize, but at the presentation dinner the award went to another contender. Rushdie raised eyebrows by standing up and protesting the injustice of the decision. "The thing about Salman," says an editor who knows him, "is that if he won the Nobel Prize, he would not be happy until he had won it twice...
...sees everyone she knows as a disappointment. She turns the slender plot -- Shirley's sneaking off to Greece for a holiday and her temptation to stay there -- into genuine introspection. It's easy to see why Collins, who originated the role in London, last month won the Olivier Award for that portrayal. Praise belongs as well to designer Bruno Santini, who makes the kitchen so pleasant and homey that one realizes its constriction only in the second act, as Shirley sprawls on a rocky seaside outcropping beneath an azure Mediterranean sky. The visual metaphor, like the play, is obvious...