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...Through the 50s, the HFPA found inventively silly ways to honor celebrities who might never grace an Academy Award stage. Guy Madison was named Best Western Star (for acting in horse operas, not visiting the hotel chain). A category called World Film Favorite could be roughly translated as: a famous person who'll come to our party. Early winners here included Marilyn Monroe, Kim Novak and swimming star Esther Williams. In 1956 Williams received a second honored: the Hollywood Citizenship Award. (Only two of these were handed out, Ronald Reagan winning the other one.) Zsa Zsa Gabor was named Most...
...University of Wisconsin at Madison, whose provost signed the letter, ranked second in total research and development expenditures in 2006, while Harvard did not break...
...emphatically reject that notion,” wrote the administrators, who are provosts from schools such as the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “Collectively, our institutions educate more than 380,000 students, produce 1 in every 8 American PhDs, and conduct more than $4.5 billion worth of research every year...
...Faust’s remarks hailed from Pennsylvania State University, University of Illinois at Chicago, Indiana University at Bloomington, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Ohio State University, Purdue University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison...
...separate from the U.S. ski team? Martin Rosengreen MADISON, WIS. The team cut my funding, [so] I was going to be paying for myself anyway. There were other issues. [For example,] I thought it would be productive to have a bus with a gym in it and our own chefs so that we can control our food. Not that it's ever been an issue, [but] somebody could put a little of any banned substance in our mass pastas in our hotel, and we'd all be disqualified, no questions asked...