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...most highly regarded works, A Star Ain't Nothin' but a Hole in Heaven, portrayed a college-bound woman as she becomes aware of the price civil rights activists paid for the opportunities she is afforded. In 1977 the drama earned Mason the first Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award...
...Permanent Court of Arbitration's remapping of the Abyei region reduces its size by more than a third. The new borders award several major oil fields to the north Sudanese government of President Omar al-Bashir but also make it more likely that the region will become part of south Sudan when the people of Abyei vote on their future in 2011. (See pictures of Darfur descending into chaos...
...Ashes was published quietly, as the personal memoir of an Irish childhood. "My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalog number, that's all," McCourt said. But it became first a critical sensation, then a runaway best seller. In 1997 McCourt won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. (See TIME's best books...
...Chechnya, the government creates an atmosphere of fear and mistrust," Estemirova said in 2007, as she accepted HRW's Human Rights Defender Award. "Those who witness abuse keep silent, for if they speak, they can soon become a victim. Can you imagine living each day wondering who might turn you in to the government for saying the wrong thing...
...Flehinger received Harvard’s Levenson Award for outstanding teaching in 2001, an honor that Eck said stood out during the resident dean application process and showed that he had a "strong and vibrant" connection with students. Eric C. LeMay, the former Head Preceptor in the Expository Writing Department, said he shared an office with Flehinger, who was "enthusiastic and energetic to the marrow...