Word: finalists
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...selection criteria do not guarantee that USA Hockey is unbiased in its promotion of the award, however. For most of the weekend, the Patty Kazmaier finalist announcement was the lead story on the USA Hockey web site, www.usahockey.com. Next to the announcement, USA Hockey ran a picture of Ruggiero in a U.S. jersey rather than a picture of Botterill in a Canadian sweater or any of the finalists in a collegiate uniform...
Although his second novel, John Henry Days, was even more successful than his first—it was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award—Whitehead still welcomes the opportunity to be able to write with few constraints...
Indeed, I am certain that Libeskind’s design is aesthetically superior to that of the other finalist. In his preservation of the sunken pit at the base of the towers’ foundation, where the deep slurry walls still hold back the Hudson, there is at least his concession to the incapacity of architectural addition. The most powerful part of his design is that in which he has done nothing. In the pit, there are few flourishes. There is only Libeskind’s realization that the solemn ruins of death are made banal by calling attention...
...days after the attack, the global media unwittingly became the terrorists’ agent by relentlessly replaying images of their crimes, reinforcing the message of intimidation. As an antidote, the public is craving a restorative vision, a larger-than-life talisman to avert evil. The two finalist schemes are both highly symbolic—somewhat monumental, but also fragmented and skeletal; they represent more of an infrastructure than a monolithic building. But what do they symbolize? The act of destruction? Or are they symbols of renewal...
LIZABETH COHEN. Bancroft Prize winner, Pulitzer finalist and Harvard professor of history Lizabeth Cohen discusses her new book, A Consumer’s Republic: Mass Consumption in Postwar America, Friday, Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. at the Harvard Book Store. Cohen’s book re-examines how American consumption patterns after the World War II changed political campaigning and helped create the conditions for some of the most powerful forms of activism on behalf of civil rights...