Word: prized
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...While at Northwestern University, she interviewed the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who recently said he applied for an Iranian visa so he could visit Saberi in prison. Human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, Iran's Nobel Peace Prize laurate, also agreed to join Saberi's cause as a defense attorney...
...Bloomberg recently reported "Fallout from the recession implies a 'markedly higher' natural rate of unemployment, says Edmund Phelps, a professor at Columbia University in New York and winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in economics. "It was 5.5 percent; maybe it will be 6.5 percent, maybe 7 percent." Phelps has a number of equally qualified experts who agree with him. (See pictures of Cleveland struggling with unemployment...
...propel us through life and the ways in which we are able to break free of them.A Harvard grad, Phillips first published his first collection, “In the Blood,” in 1992. He has since received many accolades for his work, including the Samuel Morris Prize and several fellowships. The basic human condition and its facets—mortality and sexuality among others—comprise the subject matter of much of his work.It is fitting that the title of the opening poem, and of the collection itself, is that of a Billy Holiday song; Phillips?...
...evening. “Due to some underperformance in the Harvard endowment, there was not as much funding to provide these awards,” said PBHA Executive Director Gene A. Corbin. While three students in years past had received the Stride Rite Post-Graduate Fellowship—a prize that comes with $25,000—only one student received the award. Katherine A. Carroll ’09, who was awarded the fellowship, will continue her work as a coordinator at a youth center in Dorchester after graduation. In addition, Alyssa M. Aguilera...
...However, the result is likely to be the same. Although the European perspective has been instrumental in guiding young democracies out of the grip of authoritarianism and autarchy, this power to transform the fringe is slipping. With the prize of becoming an E.U. member seeming to move further and further out of their reach, the Balkans and Turkey - politically fragile and economically vulnerable - could reverse any reforms they've already undertaken in order to turn themselves into better E.U. candidates...