Word: prize
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Runners-up will also receive a prize...
Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature Svetlana Boym, Professor of Government Paul Pierson and Professor of Psychology Daniel L. Schacter received the prize along with 164 other North American artists, scholars, and scientists...
...years ago, when National Institutes of Health director and Nobel Prize winner Harold Varmus was picked to be Harvard's commencement speaker, many members of the Class of 1996 asked why their speaker couldn't be someone better known, like Vaclav Havel, the 1995 speaker, or Al Gore '69, who spoke...
...Pulitzer for Public Service journalism, one of the highest awards a newspaper can receive. News editor Jeff Beach took it in stride, remembering "that special time during the flood when [the paper] was being snapped up at all the refugee centers... I think that meant more than the prize." That may be so, but the Pulitzer won't be amiss at the Herald's newly constructed newsroom...
...Solidarity would not die, and Walesa remained its symbol. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983. With support from the Pope and the U.S., he and his colleagues in the underground leadership of Solidarity kept the flame alight, until the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Kremlin brought new hope. In 1988 there was another occupation strike in the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, which Walesa again joined--though this time as the grand old man among younger workers. A few months later, the Polish communists entered into negotiations with Solidarity, at the first Round Table of 1989. Walesa...