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Harvard Medical School honored Prince Charles with the Global Environmental Citizen Award in New York last week, recognizing his decades of work promoting environmental sustainability. But the prince of Wales drew flak from environmental activists, including Britain’s Green Party and the country’s environment secretary, for contributing to global warming by flying to New York, according to British news reports. Referencing the criticism, Charles opened his speech by joking, “I must warn you that I am in fact a video recording. I have only made a ‘virtual?...
...should all be in the position to make such sacrifices, Charles didn't win plaudits for his holiday martyrdom. Instead British green groups, seconded by Environment Secretary David Miliband, spanked the Prince for deciding to fly to the U.S. on Jan. 27 to pick up a prestigious environmental award, arguing that the carbon emissions created by his travel canceled out his green cred...
...Oscar night, Feb. 25, three gentlemen will beseated in the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, each hoping to win an Academy Award or two. Just as fervently, they'll be rooting for one another, for they are compadres from Mexico City. It simplifies matters that they are not in direct competition. Alejandro Gonzlez Irritu, who made Babel, is up for Best Picture and Best Director. Guillermo del Toro, writer-director of Pan's Labyrinth, has been nominated in the Foreign Film and Original Screenplay categories. Alfonso Cuarn, the director of Children of Men, could be onstage...
Harvard announced the finalists for its annual Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting yesterday, honoring six teams of newspaper journalists who uncovered scandals in finance, medicine, and elsewhere. The winners of the award, given by the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics, and Public Policy, will be announced March 13. The winning team will walk away with $25,000. “The Goldsmith Prize is the Golden Globes to the Pulitzer’s Oscars,” said the center’s director, Alex S. Jones. Four of last year?...
...four more goals against the Dutchwomen. The matchups should again be useful for stat-padding, as several of the Crimson’s stars can solidify their places among the nation’s numerical leaders. Most notably, co-captain Julie Chu, a frontrunner for the Patty Kazmaier Award given to the top player in Division I, can bolster her already impressive resume with big numbers against some porous defenses. “I would hope that they are outstanding,” Stone said of Chu’s chances of capturing the award. “People that...