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...should avoid “setting a precedent for revisiting its judgments over many decades.” Yet the slippery-slope argument is not very compelling here. Consider that in December 2002, Columbia University rescinded Michael Bellesiles’s Bancroft Prize after it was discovered that his award-winning book, Arming America, relied on fabricated sources. Were the Pulitzer Board to revoke Duranty’s prize, it would not threaten past Pulitzer winners any more than the rescinding of Bellesiles’s award threatened previous Bancroft winners...
DIED. MITCHELL PAIGE, 85, retired Marine Corps colonel who received the Medal of Honor--the military's highest award for valor--for serving in the 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal; in La Quinta, Calif. With all 33 men in his platoon dead or injured, Paige single-handedly staved off some 2,000 Japanese soldiers, moving between machine-gun stations before reinforcements arrived at dawn...
...discovers new artists. He has turned the staid Japanese publishing business on its head by selling to the demographic previously written off by traditional publishers as the manga market. He published the poetry book Ejiki by singer-actor-writer Kou Machida seven years before the writer received the Akutagawa Award, one of Japan's highest literary honors, in 2000. In 1998 Takei released the art book Slash With a Knife by Yoshitomo Nara, long before Nara became one of Japan's top painters. The film Hush!, which Takei helped market, has received numerous awards, including the Yokohama Film Festival...
...There have been quite a few great sports moments and many clutch plays. Everyone who gets the Nestle Crunch Time Play of the Game Award is supposed to get a Crunch Bar,” Bahadu said. “But I don’t think anyone has gotten...
...protect his identity, the rice farmer is known as John Doe No. 8 in a lawsuit in which he and 14 other unnamed victims accuse Unocal of "aiding and abetting" abuses carried out by Burmese soldiers. The villagers, assisted by American labor activists, have asked U.S. courts to award damages that could exceed $1 billion. How Unocal fares in a trial starting this week in a California state court and in federal litigation will be closely watched, because the oil company is just one of many big U.S. companies facing similar court cases, a potential minefield for multinationals. Other targets...