Word: prize
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Seniors interviewed yesterday said they were surprised and delighted to receive the award, which includes a prize of $2,500 for each student and an award for the advisers...
...Another prize winner, Cliff W. Chiang '96, took advantage of his joint concentration in English and Visual and Environmental Studies to illustrate Milton's Paradise Lost...
Possession is by far A.S. Byatt's best-known novel. A miraculous blend of contemporary and Victorian morality and romance, it won the 1990 Booker Prize in Britain just as it was being published in the U.S. to glowing reviews and warm sales. Babel Tower (Random House; 625 pages; $25.95) is Byatt's first novel since then, and will surely attract the attention of all those enchanted by Possession. It is also likely to provoke some head scratching, since the new novel continues a story begun in two of Byatt's earlier, pre-Possession books...
...Ehrenburg's life is of so much interest precisely because his loyalties, his principles, are so hard to determine. He was a Jew who prospered during the anti-Semitic Stalin years, while other notable Jewish writers were judicially murdered; he was a poet and novelist who won the Stalin Prize while his personal friends Osip Mandelstam and Isaac Babel were sent to the gulag. Clearly, Ehrenburg was no beacon of conscience...
...extraordinary 30 national and international photo awards this year. Suau won both the Canon Photo Essayist award in its Pictures of the Year competition and the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal for his gripping images of Grozny under assault by Russian troops. A second opc prize, the Olivier Rebbot Award, went to David Turnley for his photographs of Bosnian refugees. Capa, himself a great war photographer, once said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough." He would have appreciated not only Suau and Turnley's you-are-there photos but also...