Word: medals
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...awards were presented by four winners of the real Nobel Prize: Higgins Professor of Physics Sheldon Glashow, who wore his medal to the event: Baird Professor of Science Dudley Herschbachi Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus William Lipscomb and Richard Roberts of New England Biolabs...
...been able to teach." As that statement implies, this founding member of intertraditional folk groups the Weavers and the Almanac Singers doesn't have many regrets about the past. "I've always been too busy to think about coming back," he admits. Except, of course, to receive the Arts Medal...
...spent the last 20 years having the great good fortune of getting paid to play music I love and to raise funds for various social causes I belive in. No sign of having to get a day job yet." In 1997, she returned to Cambridge to accept the Arts Medal...
...grace and the patience of her character. In 1996 at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Florence came to my room before the 100-m final to give me words of encouragement. "All right, Gail," she said, "go make history." On and off the track, Florence gave gold-medal performances. She inspired and motivated many people through her speech and words. How many people's lives, when we look at them, make us stand back in awe? In 38 years Florence accomplished what would take others three lifetimes to do. She was a wife, a mother, an actress and a poet...
DIED. BETTY CARTER, 69, boldly idiosyncratic jazz singer and nurturer of young jazz talent, who won a National Medal of Arts award in 1997; of cancer; in New York City...