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...days, it seems, a book's not a book if it ain't got a seal on it. There's the Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize, Oprah's Book Club, and, on Nov. 19, the 58th annual National Book Awards (NBA) ceremony - in which the National Book Foundation will present four $10,000 prizes to an author in each category: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. Judges - who are writers nominated by past NBA winners, finalists and judges and then selected by the foundation's board - hold deliberations independently of board and staff members. Winners are only announced...
...only after some probing that Shelby laughingly admits that he may be prone to modesty. Indeed, in a department that has its share of high-profile faculty members both past and present, Shelby stands out as decidedly understated...
...dean was responsible for all education programs at the Medical School. Golan and Michel will now join Dean for Medical Education Jules L. Dienstag to start implementing recommendations proposed by the strategic planning advisory groups. Flier said in a wide-ranging interview this fall that he intends to present the results of the strategic planning process to the Harvard Corporation—the University’s highest governing board—in early December. Golan will direct the Program in Graduate Education, a new initiative which aims to bring together the Medical School’s seven Ph.D programs?...
...That idea, however, is not very popular with the Republicans' counterparts on Capitol Hill. "Both Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi and Reid have raised concerns about that," says Jim Manley, a senior adviser to Reid. "It robs the industry's future to pay for the present. We shouldn't have to choose." And unfortunately for Detroit, automakers would need congressional approval to access those funds on an emergency basis...
...ability to successfully perform a government job. It's also unlikely that a few wrong answers would be reason enough for elimination, especially given that the President-elect himself would not have emerged from answering the questionnaire unscathed. (Question #20 asks the applicant to detail any past or present associations that might have "the potential for embarrassment." Bill Ayers, anyone?) For those brave enough to get through the questions, an adventurous career in government service awaits: the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs has published a guide called the Plum Book which lists the government jobs currently accepting...