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...include works by Pablo Picasso, Niki de Saint-Phalle and Bernard Pagès. Visitors thus get a chance to both taste and see how wine producers and art collectors like Château Mouton Rothschild's Philippe de Rothschild spend their money. This year's guest of honor is Bordeaux's Japanese sister city, Fukuoka, and with good reason. While dwindling domestic consumption and increasing foreign competition have provoked the French wine industry's worst sales crisis in decades, wine consumption in Japan has surged almost 200% in 10 years. The Bordeaux Interprofessional Wine Council (civb) has recently upped...
...Beautiful for Joe Cocker, was the most coveted session player of his era. Preston--who George Harrison said kept the Fab Four together on their final, tumultuous recording, Let It Be--famously accompanied them in their last concert, in 1969 on a London rooftop. He also received a rare honor on Get Back-the "fifth Beatle" was credited ("the Beatles with Billy Preston"), the only time a sideman for the band was so acknowledged...
...leader in the research of telomeres, part of the DNA in chromosomes which keep genetic information consistent, Blackburn has been recognized numerous times for her work. Her honors include the National Academy of Science’s Molecular Biology Award (1990), the California Scientist of the Year award (1999), the American Cancer Society Medal of Honor (2000), and the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Medicine...
...Wilson’s video concludes. And, in a fitting conclusion to a College career marked by Leverett pride, Wilson is the recipient of the House’s David McCord prize for “artistic contributions” to Leverett. The McCord award is not the only honor she’s racked up this past year. In October, she won the jury prize for best student animation at the New England Film and Video Festival. Her submission, “Wish you were Here,” is less slapstick than her Harvard-oriented animations?...
...mile race were invited to make contributions to the Paul F. Gilligan III Foundation, which awards a $2,500 scholarship to a graduating senior at Gilligan’s alma mater, Haddon Township High School in New Jersey. The foundation will also annually award a fellowship in his honor of $2,500 for purposeful summer study or travel to a resident of Eliot, where Gilligan lived during his time at the College. Vikram Viswanathan ’06 was selected by the Eliot House Fellowship Committee as the first recipient. Gilligan racked up numerous honors in his short life?...