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...shouldn’t necessarily paralyze us. We can’t be the Sally Field of nations—you know, ‘you like me, you really like me,’” Brooks said, referring to the actress’s famous Academy Award acceptance speech...
...Quarterback and Ms. Inside Edition didn’t announce Maryland as one of the eight finalists, and I didn’t even make it to the sweet 16. But I flew home with a lot of really great memories and a $2,500 Preliminary Scholastics Award. Coupled with my state award winner scholarship, Junior Miss paid for about four Ec10 lectures this year...
...procedure for applying for the award at Harvard requires students to submit the complete Truman Scholarship application to the Office of Career Services in November. A committee then narrows down the pool and conducts interviews before choosing its four nominees...
Each year, two to three of Harvard’s four nominees receive the award, according to Paul A. Bohlmann, director of fellowships at the Office of Career Services...
...admirable blow for the forces of democracy, and those who call the incident valuable “dissent” overstate their case. But barnyard gesticulations—especially those denied by the party accused of making them—are no grounds for the rescinding of a leadership award. Etiquette is not leadership, and the Alumni Association would do well to consider whether it wishes to recognize those adult skills possessed by leaders—charisma, boldness, conviction—or the neatly-folded hands of docile children...