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...America.” If Conner saw anything of his own end in those atomic explosions, it’s unlikely that a self-authored eulogy will surface to let us know about it. He requested that no funeral be given in his honor.—Columnist Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
Pizzotti joins running back William Ford of South Carolina State, wide receiver John Matthews of San Diego and running back-return man Larry Warner of Southern Illinois in being selected as a late addition to the list of candidates for the honor, which will be given...
...National Book Awards don't have as large an impact on book sales as the Pulitzer Prize or Oprah's seal of approval, but the honor remains highly sought after nonetheless. This year's finalists include Drew Gilpin Faust's This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, Peter Matthiessen's controversial Shadow Country, which came under fire for being a re-written compilation of three novels that he wrote in the 90s and Patricia Smith's collection of poems Blood Dazzler, which describe New Orleans before, during and after Hurricane Katrina. With 1,258 books submitted from...
...entered the big leagues—middle school—and therefore much tougher competition, but my political star continued to ascend. I captured the presidency of the sixth grade class and then the seventh grade class and finally I took the highest post in the National Junior Honor Society. I was on top of the world. I had already achieved so many firsts for my race and I knew in my heart that being the first black president of the U.S. was next. And then he came. With only the advantage of age over me, a black man from...
...story, "Sinduhije Held in Burundi," stated that former Shorenstein fellow Alexis Sinduhije was named by Time magazine as one of its 100 most influential people in 1997. In fact, Sinduhije received that honor in 2008. An earlier headline on the story also misspelled his surname...