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...Capa is an achievement; to win it twice is truly remarkable. Last week James Nachtwey won for the third time in four years, becoming the second person in the history of the award (after the late Larry Burrows of LIFE) to do so. Nachtwey's picture stories included a series done jointly for TIME and West Germany's GEO on the Tamil rebels of Sri Lanka, and coverage for TIME of the Philippines and the mujahedin guerrillas in Afghanistan. In addition, Nachtwey was named Magazine Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association-University of Missouri School...
This year's Capa award seemed especially ironic to Nachtwey, since the presentation came the day after the bombing of the Colombo bus station. Says he: "The recent news from Sri Lanka has underlined for me a sense of futility about effecting some kind of positive change in the world. But I believe journalists have to keep trying to shed some light on troubled areas...
Other TIME photography award winners this spring include Catherine Leroy, Ralph Morse, Christian Mouchet, Regis Bossu, Robin Moyer, Selwyn Tait, James Balog and Matt Mahurin, who won N.P.P.A.-U.M.S.J. Awards of Excellence in various categories; and Dennis Brack, who won the White House News Photographers Association first prize in the Insiders Washington category with his portrait of ex-White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan...
...award is going to an economist for the first time, the NSF action should be seen as "recognizing the legitimacy of economics as a real science," Ubois said. "Some people think social science is an oxymoron...
...leading economists of his agein his areas," said Assistant Economics ProfessorLawrence B. Lindsey. "If anyone in the departmentwere to get that award, I would say he is anexcellent choice...