Word: awards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee earlier this fall decided to award a portion of the fund to the Harvard South African Fellowship Program, which will allow the program to increase the number of South Africans offered spots at Harvard from four...
...recent years, TIME's commitment of resources to quality has expanded our range and coverage. TIME has won hundreds of journalistic citations, including most of the world's top photography prizes and last year's National Magazine Award for General Excellence. We became the first newsmagazine to have full color front to back, offering readers and advertisers an environment unmatched in our field...
...last week West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and ten other Christian Democratic leaders protested the award for Chazov. Reason: in 1973 Chazov, along with 24 other members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, signed a letter against Sakharov that the protesters say initiated the campaign of persecution against him. An embarrassed Nobel Committee admitted that it had not been aware of the letter and expressed its "discomfort" at the news. Chazov professed not to understand the fuss. "I'm from Gorky," he said of the city where Sakharov has been exiled since 1980. "It's a nice town...
While Cambridge and New Haven split the award, the Belmont Hill School garnered a clean sweep, as both Fusco and Schwalb are graduates and veterans of Coach Ken Martin's outstanding boys' hockey program...
...would think that an American winning a Peace Prize would cause unanimous national congratulations, but such has not been the case. Why all the hubbub? Many conservatives have pointed out that Dr. Chazov, who will jointly receive the award with Lown, is a member of the Soviet Central Committee and one of the Kremlin leadership's personal physicians. Lack of knowledge of this fact can be excused, but now it's well-known. It seems even more pointless at this late date constantly to mention the obvious lack of influence the Soviet people have on formulation of their country...