Word: medals
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...says: `When I come into my office on Sundays, Gary Becker is in his office, too. If I went into Littauer on a weekday, I wouldn't be able to find Larry Summers.' Professor Summers, arguably Harvard's biggest star and winner of this year's John Bates Clark Medal, left his research post (and his office in Harvard's Littauer building) to become first chief economist at the World Bank and now Under Secretary for International Affairs in the Clinton Treasury...
...Harvard biologist had won the award since its inception in 1985. Wilson will be awarded a medal and ten million yen (roughly $95,000) at a ceremony in Tokyo on November...
...Japan Society selected Wilson from among 47 other scientists worldwide. With the award, Wilson completes a triple crown of sorts. He has won both the National Medal of Science and the Craaford Prize, the highest international award in biology...
...between sailing with Jackie and dining with the Kissingers, Clinton has dozens of other invitations to sort through. The Vineyard chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. has asked him to speak, the Oak Bluffs selectmen want to present him with a medal, and the Wampanoag tribe has invited him to a powwow. The Edgartown city fathers may have had the best idea. Knowing the President's weakness for town meetings, they have invited him to one scheduled...
Meanwhile Clinton discovered that getting what he wanted without a fight with Congress was impossible. He had one significant ally in Senator Bob Kerrey, the Congressional Medal of Honor winner who lost a leg in Vietnam. In a speech last week, Kerrey admitted that his own experience in the Navy SEALs had caused him initially "to drift toward the military point of view." But he changed his mind in May after he heard Marine Colonel Fred Peck testify that he would not want his gay son to serve in the Marines, fearful that his son's life would be threatened...