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...goal of the awards ever since has remained essentially the same, and in 1989 became the principle behind its corresponding organization, the National Book Foundation: to bring unheralded literature to national recognition, and to promote literacy in underserved communities throughout the United States. The award's impact, however, seems to be felt most within the publishing world itself. Foundation board members, in fact, come largely from prominent publishing companies including Penguin, Perseus Books, W.W. Norton & Co. and Simon and Schuster, with a few members drawn from related fields...
...being “woefully underpaid” and to entice the 75-year-old to defer retirement and stay on. In academic year 2006-2007, Harvard’s highest paid official was provost Steven E. Hyman, who brought home $549,683, including benefits and a two-year award paid in 2007. —Staff writer Alexandra Perloff-Giles can be reached at aperloff@fas.harvard.edu...
Sinduhije has received international recognition, as well. His work earned him the International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists last year, and, in 1997, Time magazine named him one of that year’s 100 most influential people. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...Kelms Amoo-Achampong, winner of this week's Harvard Crimson Coolest Name Award, runs up the middle and is stopped early by a bone-crunching tackle...
...it’s not entirely clear what kind of film director Tomas Alfredson set out to make in his adaptation of Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel of the same name. And yet, judging by the accolades the film has already won, including the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, Alfredson’s dark fairy tale is capturing the hearts and minds of its viewers—and for good reason.The film, which takes place in a suburb of Stockholm, follows a 12-year-old boy named Oskar...