Word: prize
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...comp, despite the odd-sounding name, is a rather painless process on the news and editorial boards. Basically, you attend a few instructional meetings (sometimes led by Pulitzer Prize winning authors) and write a few pieces. When you finish your comp, you become an editor for life and your writing skills will probably be much improved. You also get to help shape the staff editorials, the unsigned pieces on the leftmost column of this page...
...need to be a Nobel Prize winner in economics to notice that the wiring of the information superhighway has enormous economics of scale--firms that are able to quickly jump out in front will have an immense advantage over less agile competitors. After a series of bruising battles and mergers, the market for common carriers of electronic messages will quickly become oligopolistic or monopolistic. And just where the telecommunications reformers had promised to keep an open marketplace, fantastically wealthy businessmen will have colluded for exactly the opposite effect...
...five years is an eon in pop culture. In 1921 movies were silent, radio was an infant, television a dream, alcohol consumption a crime. There were few awards in fields of frivol: Oscars, Tonys, Grammys didn't exist. But some people in Atlantic City thought they should give a prize and a title to a pretty girl. The town was the East Coast's premier seaside resort, so she probably ought to wear a bathing suit. And hoping to extend the summer season, the pageant's creators scheduled it for after Labor...
...what does Powell believe? All the same motherhood-and-apple-pie bromides Ike intoned all the way to the prize. "I believe frantically in the American form of democracy, which rests upon free enterprise," said Eisenhower. "Everything I observe affirms my belief in free enterprise," writes Powell. Like Ike, Powell bemoans high taxes and government bureaucracy. When pressed for details, Powell and Ike meander. "It seems necessary to walk around some of the questions presented," Ike told colleagues. "I sense a difference between a man's convictions and what he believes is politically feasible." Hearing those words last week, Powell...
Kalman's biography won the American Historical Association's 1992 Littleton-Griswold prize for the best book on the history of American law and society...