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Because the Board of Judges for the Sarah Josepha Hale Award choose the following recipient at the awards ceremony the year before, little was said in response to the incident, which aroused media attention nationwide...
Gates said he was moved to receive recognition for his contribution to the African American and New England communities, and did not see a connection between the award and the events of the summer...
Chilean students will apply directly to the pertinent Harvard program and be accepted according to normal Harvard admissions procedures. The Chilean Ministry of Education through Becas Chile would then award scholarships to the Chileans whom Harvard would have admitted. The Chilean national science foundation, “CONICYT,” will implement the merit-based Chilean selection process. There is no Chilean government cap on the number of students that it could fund at Harvard; the number will depend on how many Chileans Harvard admits. The Chilean government will award fellowships based on financial- need guidelines that follow those...
...holds three long-distance world sailing records. His book, Racing a Ghost Ship, won the Scientific American Young Readers Book Award. His MIT master’s thesis on the Antarctic Krill Fishery spawned legislation in Congress to build a fisheries research vessel capable of traveling to the Antartic...
...that Müller's selection isn't much less surprising in Germany. Müller, whose major works include The Land of Green Plums and The Appointment, is one of Germany's most decorated writers - her book Atemschaukel has been shortlisted for this year's German Book Award, which will be announced at next week's international book fair in Frankfurt - and critics there hold her in high esteem, but almost no one considered her a figure of global literary eminence. (See a video with Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison.) "Twenty years after the end of the East-West...