Word: prize
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Panama, far more than war-torn Nicaragua, is Central America's prize. The 51-mile-long canal, still under U.S. control, has major strategic value; Panama is also one of the U.S.'s prime listening posts in the region and home to the 10,000-man U.S. Southern Command. To some, the U.S.'s difficulties in Panama are reminiscent of Iran. Having struck another Faustian bargain with a ruthless and corrupt dictator, the U.S. again finds itself turning against a longtime client with no viable democratic replacement in the wings...
Axelrod says his group has tried to remedy the problem. The Rhythm Method recently won $5000 in the national Energizer Battle of the Bands contest and offered the prize money to Harvard to pay for a rehearsal studio. But Assistant Dean for Physical Resources Phillip J. Parsons rejected their proposal because he did not consider rehearsal space for bands a priority. The Rhythm Method is still bargaining with the administration for a space here on campus, Axelrod says...
...early cosmology, Hawking is the hero," says Rocky Kolb, a physicist at Fermilab in Illinois. Caltech Physicist Kip Thorne agrees: "I would rank him, besides Einstein, as the best in our field." And what if a mini-black hole explosion is finally observed? "I would get the Nobel Prize," says Stephen, matter-of-factly...
...Lacroix, 37, is the new king of couture. A French newspaper, France Soir, considers him no less than a "messiah." The fashion industry last week honored him for the second time with its most prestigious prize, the Golden Thimble. Since he opened his own couture house a year ago, his ideas have become the most visible in the field, a rare combination of wit, frivolity and knowing thefts from both past designers and the great ages in clothing history. Lacroix is the man whose designs might sport a rude cabbage rose, perhaps on the derriere...
...National Book Critics Circle named The Counterlife the best novel of 1987. In addition, the N.B.C.C. award for poetry went to C.K. Williams for Flesh and Blood, and another Farrar, Straus author, Larry Heinemann, won a National Book Award for his novel Paco's Story. Joseph Brodsky's Nobel Prize for Literature was a welcome honor, but then the publisher has no fewer than six other living laureates on its list: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Elias Canetti, Wole Soyinka, Czeslaw Milosz and William Golding...