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This year's crop includes the usual eclectic mix of talent. There are scholars, like historians Suzanne Lebsock of Rutgers and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich of the University of New Hampshire. There are creative artists, among them choreographer Twyla Tharp. There are social activists, including Janet Benshoof, a campaigner for women's reproductive rights, and Unita Blackwell, a ^ small-town mayor and civil rights advocate. Oh, and there are some males, like Harvard philosopher Stanley Cavell. The winners get from $150,000 to $375,000 over five years (younger recipients get less money) to spend as they wish...
...Laurel Fortuner, from her winning entry in the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest for wretched writing, sponsored by San Jose State University
AFTER FIVE DAYS OF VOTE COUNTING, ALL THAT WAS clear in last week's Philippine presidential election was which of the seven candidates had lost. They included House Speaker Ramon Mitra and Vice President Salvador Laurel, nominees of the country's two largest parties. Imelda Marcos, the former President's widow, was sixth, and Eduardo Cojuangco, a longtime Marcos colleague, was third...
...government of the U.S. sometimes," notes Ivory as the trio sits in a suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel to discuss their new film, Howards End. "I'm the President, he's Congress, and she's the Supreme Court." The usually taciturn Prawer Jhabvala demurs, "They're more like Laurel and Hardy." Or the fabulous Baker boys, harmonizing from one dicey project to the next, with Prawer Jhabvala as their stern muse...
...year-old Wellesley undergraduate was allegedly raped on the morning of February 18, according to Wellesley College News Director Laurel Stavis...