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...first caught Oldboy at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury, or second prize. (Only Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 finished higher, copping the Palme d'Or.) The Jury that year was headed by Quentin Tarantino, and at the closing night ceremony, when Tarantino read out the Old Boy award, he proclaimed that his panel was "delighted" with its choice...
BEFORE TURNING 2, champion swimmer Jessica Long, 15, born without bones in her legs, was a double amputee. Following a 2006 season in which she won nine gold medals in world competition, she became the first Paralympian to win the Sullivan Award, given annually since 1930 to the nation's top amateur athlete. The recreational rock climber said, "To represent all the other Paralympic athletes ... is so cool...
...reporter for The New York Times and former Crimson news executive editor, remembered Savage as “incredibly courageous in many ways.” “He’s really the star of our class,” Chan said. The Pulitzer Prize Board has awarded prizes in 21 areas of journalism, poetry, drama, prose, and music since the inception of the award in 1917. The Pulitzer Prize was endowed by Joseph Pulitzer, a 19th-century journalist and publisher who left $2 million to Columbia University for the endowment of a journalism school and the establishment...
...acclaimed actress and civil rights activist Ruby Dee has received a Screen Actors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award, garnered a place in the NAACP Image Award Hall of Fame, and won a Grammy. And now Dee can add another accolade to her mantle after she received the 2007 Harvard Foundation Humanitarian Award last night in Appleton Chapel. Calling Dee a “brilliant American,” S. Allen Counter—the director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations—praised this year’s recipient. “For over...
...first Virginia Tech officials to recognize Cho's problems was award-winning poet Nikki Giovanni, who kicked him out of her introduction to creative writing class in late...