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...Back in the village of Dangram, Seiku Murmu and Monica Besra sit at home and try to live with their legacy from Mother Teresa. Seiku grumbles, "This miracle is a hoax." His honor is at stake, he says, so he has to make it clear where he stands with the facts. "We are not liars." Monica quietly tends to her five children and does not appear to take issue with his use of the first person plural. All she knows is that she has been healed...
...citizen of India, Sen received the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics for his work in welfare economics. He has been awarded more than 60 honorary degrees, including the Bharat Ratna—the highest honor awarded by the president of India...
...title of University Professor is Harvard’s highest academic honor, certifying the recipient to teach in any of Harvard’s schools. The University professorships were instituted by former University President James B. Conant ’14 in 1935 to support “professors with roving commissions whose teaching and creative work shall not be hampered by departmental considerations.” Thomas W. Lamont, Class of 1892, endowed the Lamont chair for “a scholar pre-eminent in the field of political economy...
Clark says the school has a strong record of honor in taking gifts, citing the fact that the school once changed the name of a building after its namesake was arrested for fraud...
...with only one film behind him, he was one of the youngest directors to ever receive final cut on a film—an honor usually reserved for older and more experienced filmmakers. He grew up in Studio City, CA and from a young age loved and knew he wanted to make movies. He attended less than a week of film school at NYU before dropping out. Yet despite his relative inexperience and anonymity (his first film was the little seen but fascinating character study Hard Eight a.k.a. Sydney), in 1997 writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson burst onto the scene with...