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...Giroux), for example, was a critical darling and Pulitzer finalist, that, like those first NBA winners, failed to top bestseller lists. And in 2001, Jonathan Franzen, winner of the fiction award for his 500-page work The Corrections, bristled at being chosen for Oprah's Book Club a month prior, inciting calls of elitism from other writers. But the foundation has recognized some household names in its past: Oprah Winfrey herself received a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1999, as did horror master Stephen King...
...defense from 1995 to 1997 during the Clinton administration, and as assistant secretary of defense from 1977 to 1978 during the Carter administration. As an adviser on the Pentagon review team, White will help to select candidates for positions within the department and prepare them for confirmation process. Prior to his appointment, White conducted defense-policy research as a board member of the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and chaired the school’s Middle East Initiative. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a former dean of the Kennedy School and founder...
Socioeconomic quotas for next year’s kindergarten classes will be based on current enrollment statistics—not the prior year’s statistics, as is normally the case—the Cambridge Public School Committee voted last night. The change will stay in effect indefinitely, until a more comprehensive decision on Cambridge’s long-standing “controlled choice” policy is reached in the spring. The district’s policy seeks to establish socioeconomic diversity at all Cambridge schools. In keeping with the program, the school district has required that...
...study initially designed to assess misdiagnosis rates of asthma among obese people - a population that prior studies suggest suffers more often and more severely from the disease - researchers at the University of Ottawa discovered that doctors may be overdiagnosing asthma in all patients, regardless of weight, by some 30%. "We were bowled over by these results," says Dr. Shawn Aaron, the study's lead author and head of respiratory medicine at the University of Ottawa. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...Speaking from Baghdad on Monday, Army Colonel John Hort of the 4th Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team, said that the SOFA simply recognizes what is already happening inside Iraq. "We're kind of already moving in that direction - even prior to the SOFA - with the Iraqi army taking more and more responsibility, more and more of the lead, particularly the targeting of the bad people," Hort told Pentagon reporters in a video press conference. "So I don't see a significant change...