Word: awards
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...NOTEBOOK: Branca was the most easily recognizable player in the pool--the team celebrated his 'Shmen award by coloring his chest with permanent red, blue, and green markers....The oldest player in the pool was a 27-year old Dartmouth medical school student. The Big Green has a "club team," making anybody eligible to play for them. His wife and baby sat in the stands....The crowd of 50 was Harvard's biggest and noisiest of the season...
...winners of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor announced last week were an eclectic roll call of America's ethnic heritage; among the recipients were Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Walter Cronkite and Muhammad Ali. But the list was even more varied than the award's sponsors realized. James Tamer, 74, a Michigan country-club owner honored as a Lebanese-American activist, turned out to be a convicted felon as well. Tamer served five years for a 1934 bank robbery. In 1979 federal prosecutors alleged he had operated a Las Vegas hotel casino as a front man for Vito Giacalone, a reputed...
...words finally emerged, they came in a torrent. Novels, essays, speeches and lectures all spoke tirelessly of the need to rescue the Holocaust from the silence of history. Last week Elie Wiesel's words of witness were honored with the Nobel Prize for Peace, which carries with it an award of $287,769.78. From Oslo, the Nobel Committee praised him as "one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterize the world. Wiesel is a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and human dignity...
...messenger was awakened with notification of the award by a telephone call at 5 a.m. in the Manhattan apartment where he lives with his wife and 14- year-old son. It was the morning after Yom Kippur, the Jewish high holiday, and Wiesel, 58, lapsed into memories of his childhood in the Rumanian town of Sighet. "I was still in the mood of Neilah, the final moments of the Yom - Kippur service," he recalled. "I saw myself as a child in Sighet, behind my father and next to my grandfather, praying with fervor." The reverie was soon interrupted...
Wiesel has been a Nobel contender for several years, for both the peace and literature prizes. (In a departure from custom, the Nobel Committee cited Bob Geldof, organizer of Live Aid and other fund-raising rock concerts, as runner- up for this year's peace prize.) Wiesel regards his award with an amalgam of gratitude and caution. "I don't think that prizes validate work," he says. "They give stature, texture, the possibility to reach more people. There's a mystique about the Nobel. It gives you a better loudspeaker...