Word: awards
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Though many colleges award aid to low income students and have developed programs to offset declining minority enrollment, officials say it is precisely the students from underprivileged areas who are less likely to be aware of help available to them and shy away from higher education under the perception that it is a luxury that they can't afford...
...Nieman Foundation has awarded the 1987 Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism to a jailed South African newspaper editor...
...Harvard-sponsored summer camp for local youths is attempting this week to convince the City of Cambridge to award funding to the program...
...letters is not easily transmuted into a cinematic montage of stage action. Yet Les Liaisons has been adapted into an equally brilliant and witty tragedy of manners by Christopher Hampton (The Philanthropist, Total Eclipse) for Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company. The R.S.C. staging, which won the 1986 Olivier award for best play, the West End's equivalent of the Tony, has been imported intact. Last week it set Broadway ablaze...
...distortions of the truth. That did not sway the U.S. Supreme Court last week. It ruled 5 to 3 that the Justice Department could invoke a World War II-era law to label as "political propaganda" three Canadian documentaries on acid rain and nuclear war, including a 1983 Academy Award winner. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens pointed out that the Foreign Agents Registration Act in 1942 defined propaganda in its broader sense, without designating it as true or false. Therefore, he said, the Government's use of the term to classify the films "has no pejorative connotation...