Word: prize
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...weeks ago, the government of Nigeria demonstrated its contempt for justice by hanging Ken Saro-Wiwa, a nominee for the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, and eight other environmental activists. Hoping to silence one of its most eloquent critic, the Nigerian military junta executed Saro-Wiwa after a widely-condemned show trial for his alleged role in the deaths of four tribal chiefs killed during a riot. Harvard should divest itself of interests in companies that continue to do business in Nigeria despite its oppressive regime...
Answering the questions is no easy assignment, as the sometimes floundering efforts of official Washington demonstrate. The activist consensus of the cold war, which made every foot of turf on earth a prize to be won or lost, has evaporated. At the same time the venerable formula that U.S. forces are to be used to protect vital interests and key allies seems less than adequate to guide the country in a violent world of fluctuating priorities. Will America's $260 billion-a-year military machine be sent into action to fight only aggressors like North Korea, Iran or Iraq...
...family's attempts to veil from the world the tragedy of his sister Rose, whose schizophrenia ended catastrophically in a lobotomy. Some were solitary acts of cool calculation, as when he lopped three years off his age to render himself eligible for a young playwrights' competition. (He won a prize, thereby wedding himself for life to a false resume.) Some were the necessary dissemblings imposed by a society too jittery or bigoted to countenance his homosexuality. And some were merely the blithe fabrications native to the creative temperament; like many writers, Williams often treated the hard facts of his life...
Ptashne demonstrated his skill with the violin at a party he hosted two weeks ago in his Cambridge home to honor Jannic Nusslein-Vol-hard and Eric Wieschaus. The two German researchers will receive this year's Nobel Prize in medicine in December for their research on the development of fruit-fly embryos...
...speech, which was sponsored by Education for Action, Pond explained how he used the $1,000 prize from winning a Reebok Human Rights Award to found the Cambodian Volunteers for Community Development...