Word: prized
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...their first month in Cambridge, the dynamic duo has already made a splash. As a pair, they took home the top prize in their division in two of their first three collegiate regattas...
...Goodman ’84, a rabble rouser since her days living the Dudley Co-op, was named a winner of the Right Livelihood Award last week, an honor known as the “Alternative Nobel Prize...
...It’s basically a left-wing prize being given to a left-wing program,” former managing news editor of NPR, John Dinges said of the Right Livelihood Award...
...Steven Millhauser? He is an American writer. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner. He is the author of a recent paean to the short story. Drawing an analogy to William Blake’s “world in a grain of sand,” he writes in a New York Times essay that “the short story concentrates on its grain of sand, in the fierce belief that there—right there, in the palm of its hand—lies the universe…In that single grain of sand lies the beach that...
...Ibrahim's experiences as an entrepreneur in Africa that convinced him to set up his foundation and create a $5 million annual prize for the African leader who best personifies responsible and credible government, which he saw as the key to African development. So why are things changing now? "[As] John Githongo [Kenya's former anticorruption czar] says, 'The democracy genie is out of the bottle,' " notes Hania Farhan, the foundation's director of research. "There will be violent ructions and eruptions, like Kenya or Zimbabwe or Nigeria, but the trend is there, and it is remarkable. Africans want their...