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...distinguished foreign-bornAmericans to receive a Medal of Liberty Awardfrom President Reagan at ceremonies marking therekindling of the Statue of Liberty's lamp in1986. In 1991, she received the Presidential Medalof Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award,from President Bush. She received the CharlesFrankel Prize from the National Endowment for theHumanities and the Jefferson Medal from theAmerican Philosophical Society...
Then again, he might just actually bag the big prize, take Chrysler private for a few years, then sell it back to the public for a hefty profit. Can he truly finance the buy? In addition to the money he expects to draw from Chrysler's reserve fund, his purchase plan calls for $3.5 billion from other investors and $10.7 billion in bank loans and other borrowing. Kerkorian's people also hint that some of the money to buy Chrysler might come from foreign auto companies. In the immediate wake of the deal offer, however, none has shown the cash...
Doris Kearns Goodwin, who was awarded a doctorate from the Graduate School of Education in 1968, won the pulitzer prize for history yesterday...
Goodwin was awarded the prize for her recent book on Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt...
...Pulitzer Prize winner, former chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the individual who turned Cambridge Hospital's psychiatry department into one of the premier teaching institutions in the country, Mack has garnered high esteem for his work on topics ranging from nightmares and human conflict to teenage suicide...