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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether we are participants or viewers, there is one piece of common knowledge that unites us. We know that awards shows are basically for the performing industry to laud itself while ensuring self-perpetuation. In its execution, Boston's contribution to the awards phenomenon was not too different. The town's Music Awards even had famed personalities present to complement the Boston musicians and their fans. These celebrities, fixtures in award culture, are darlings propelled to notoriety by the coast-to-coast pop culture machine. Joshua Jackson, Duncan Sheik, Joey McIntyre and Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo were such...

Author: By Peter A. Hahn, | Title: Kahlua Boston Music Awards | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...award is designed to "honor individuals who have significantly advanced knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinton Honors Whitesides, Wilson | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

George M. Whitesides'60, Mallinckrodt professor of chemistry, and Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson received the national Medal of Science, an award often called the American equivalent of the Nobel Prize...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinton Honors Whitesides, Wilson | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...what is the glorious Resume Contest award? A plum position at a fancy New York firm? A paid political vacation in Washington, D.C.? "Three winners," the flier promises, "one from each year, will receive a $50.00 prize!" Here our hearts sink. After all, it was merely months ago that certain companies, running their own private resume contests, were offering a $50,000 prize. (The superfluous zeroes on the poster are part of the tease.) And then we get to the fine print: "As part of a larger research project on career choices by organizational researchers, a resume contest will...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Billboards in Fantasyland | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...science medal, established by Congress in 1959, is administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF). It stands alone as the only such award given by the president...

Author: By Sasha A. Haines-stiles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Clinton Honors Whitesides, Wilson | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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