Word: prize
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Since sharing the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Palestinian Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Rabin has been the target of criticism from the Israeli radical right for negotiating an agreement to yield the old West Bank, which contains a sizable Jewish population, to the Palestinians...
SUDDENLY A ROAR ISsues from the TV set. On the screen, a giant tongue of flaming gases erupts from the sun, and one bold statement after another is superimposed on the solar surface: "The idea behind it led to the Nobel Prize in Medicine," reads the first, followed by, "It's the most prescribed medication of its kind." As the sun is gradually eclipsed, the boasts continue: "It helps block production of stomach acid." "It's the world's first acid blocker." Then, against the glowing corona of a totally eclipsed sun, "And now it's available without a prescription...
Professor Seamus Heaney made his first public appearance since winning the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to read five poems in the candlelit hush of Memorial Church last night, as part of a commemorative event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Harvard University Art Museums...
...greatest successes. His early plays included such celebrated works as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Zoo Story and A Delicate Balance. With Three Tall Women, now playing at Boston's Colonial Theatre after an off-Broadway run in New York, Albee has deservedly won his third Pulitzer Prize. The play is about his adoptive mother, with whom he had a hostile relationship, yet the tone is reconciliatory, not spiteful. In an attempt to understand his mother after her death, Albee has created a flesh-and-blood portrait of a woman at the end of her life...
...course they can't just get rid of them, so let them have their own little state. Guise your gestures in robes of national autonomy. Rabin gets to look so magnanimous shaking Arafat's hand. And what photos with the White House in the background and at the Nobel Prize ceremony. The world is applauding. How can Giuliani even contest Yasser's preeminence...