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...been subjected to severe restrictions under new media laws. AWARDED. To PROFESSOR ANTHONY GIDDENS, 63, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science, Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences; in Oviedo, Spain. Giddens will be presented with ?50,000 ($46,782) and a Joan Mir? statue by Spain's Crown Prince Felipe, who is also the Prince of Asturias. DEDICATED. To BOB HOPE, 99, evergreen comedian whose shows have entertained troops deployed in several wars from World War II to the Gulf War, a chapel at the National Cemetery; in Los Angeles. The consecration...
...complications arising from a pituitary brain tumor; in New York City. HONORED. ARTHUR MILLER, 86, American playwright, with Spain's prestigious Principe de Asturias Prize for Literature, making him the first U.S. recipient of the award; in Oveido, Spain. Miller will be presented with $45,500 and a Joan Miro sculpture at a ceremony later this year by Spain's Prince Felipe of Asturias. SENTENCED. ROBERT HANSSEN, 58, the former fbi agent who doubled as a Russian spy for 20 years, to life in prison without parole; in Alexandria, Virginia. Hanssen, who apologized for his activities, which...
David Letterman used to do a segment on his show called "Brush with Greatness," in which an audience member recalled a fleeting encounter with a famous person--say, bumping into Joan Rivers on an elevator. American Son (Henry Holt & Co.; 294 pages), the much anticipated memoir of John F. Kennedy Jr., by Richard Blow, feels a little like an extended literary version of this, as Blow unearths every last encounter with his subject, as if to say, I knew him; I really, really...
...example, the newest addition, the certificate in health policy, was started two years ago as a result of abounding student interest in the field, according to Joan P. Curhan, the administrator of the undergraduate health policy certificate program...
...demonstrations promise to stir up deep ideological passions, about everything from immigration to Third World debt to free speech. In Paris, opponents of surprise presidential runner-up Jean-Marie Le Pen plan to confront the far-right nationalist as he leads his annual march in honor of Joan of Arc. Meanwhile, Londoners are braced for a rematch, complete with footballs, between globalization foes and the police who penned them in at Oxford Circus last year. Well, what about labor? It's the reason for the holiday, after all - and for Europe, it also remains a vexing economic dilemma...