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...only number one on the field, but off the field as well.Elected captain by his teammates, Fucito is a paradigm of what it truly means to be a scholar-athlete.As a result of his prowess both on the pitch and in the classroom, Fucito was named as a finalist for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award and is one of 48 players named to the 2008 Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy Watch List.“I really don’t know what to make of it,” Fucito said.Teammate, and roommate, Stamatis...
University President Drew G. Faust’s latest civil war book was named a finalist yesterday for the 2008 National Book Award in non-fiction. “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” is one of five books nominated in that category by the National Book Foundation, the non-profit literary foundation that gives out the awards. The winner will be announced next month in New York City. Faust’s sixth book takes on how Americans managed and understood death during the Civil War, her area of scholarly expertise. Published...
...Northern Alliance soldiers who believed the Taliban had evacuated. “It was a double cross,” Filkins said nonchalantly, “we nearly didn’t make it out alive.” Then he moved on to tell another harrowing story. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the George Polk award, Filkins, who joined The Times in 2001 after reporting in Afghanistan for The Los Angeles Times, spoke at Harvard Book Store last night to an overflowing room. His talk was part of a promotional tour for his new book...
...story, "IOP Panel Debates Economic Turmoil," reported that The New York Times reporter on the panel, Diana B. Henriques, is a Pulitzer Prize winner. In fact, she has never won the prize, but has been a finalist...
...addition to previously serving as the health minister in Mexico, Frenk has been a senior fellow of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to that, he was considered a finalist for the director generalship of the World Health Organization, even winning the endorsement of the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet...