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Rival awards shows, which, like the Oscars, have for years forbidden the "winner" phrasing, were quick to notice the change. "I was surprised to hear that. It was kind of jolting," says John Leverence, a senior vice president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which gives out TV's Emmy awards. The rationale for the "award goes to ..." format is twofold: it plugs the award continuously, and it doesn't make losers feel any worse than they already do. "There's just a little bit of negative spin on saying, 'Oh yeah, this guy won this. The rest...
...John Pitkin, a member of the drafting and planning committee, said that these working groups will be largely responsible for implementing plans at the community level...
Adams House Master John G. “Sean” Palfrey ’67 said the House cut “some of the slightly fancier ingredients” in Masters’ Open Houses, but also had to eliminate the federal work-study jobs of students who worked in the library and superintendent’s office...
...meet was so large, in fact, that some Harvard competitors stood out despite finishing out of the top 10. Freshman Ablorde Ashigbi finished 13th in the weight throw while sophomore John Dingus broke his own school record in the 400-meter race with a time of 47.73—but finished one spot out of the finals...
...beset by burgeoning charges that he had sexually abused young seminarians for decades, the Mexican priest had resigned as head of the Legionaries of Christ, one of the Roman Catholic Church's most powerful clerical orders. In 2006 the Vatican - which under the late Pope John Paul II had been one of Padre Maciel's staunchest allies - made him give up public ministry and confine himself to a life of "prayer and penitence...