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...majors turning into minors? Despite the bad news, that fate remains some way off. Big record companies still excel at winning their bands airtime or prime space on stores' shelves. And for every rebuff from a Madonna, there's an award for a Winehouse, thanks to support from tuned-in record execs. "It's all very well to say bands can do it all themselves; some don't want to," says Max Hole, executive vice president of Universal Music Group International, which oversees Winehouse's label. Many now acting alone admit they got a leg up from a record company...
...Player and Most Outstanding Pitcher. Allard was also selected as a Division I All-American and named the Big Ten Player of the Year. The list goes on, as the Irvine, Calif. native achieved Academic All-Big Ten honors and was nominated for the Honda Broderick Cup, a sports award for female collegiate athletes who demonstrate excellent athletic talent, leadership skills, academic distinction, and community participation. Additionally, Allard earned Michigan’s Conference Medal of Honor, an accolade for the university’s highest-achieving female student-athlete.Two years after her graduation in 1990, Allard’s successes...
Allan M. Brandt, the new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded this year’s Bancroft Prize for his comprehensive study of the tobacco industry. Brandt won the prestigious history prize, awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University, for his book, “The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America.” “The premise of the book was that cigarettes represented so many central aspects of our culture,” Brandt, who was traveling and could...
Jessica S. Budnitz, a Law School lecturer who received the Gary Bellow Public Service Award in 2003, said the program was “a fabulous step...to encourage our students to do public-interest work and promote social justice causes...
Last month, Gibney's film Taxi to the Dark Side won the 2008 Academy Award for "Best Documentary" for its exploration of the Bush administration's policy on torture and interrogation at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Bagram Detention Centers. He dedicated the film to its central character, a 22-year-old taxi driver from Afghanistan who was detained and later beaten to death by American soldiers in December...