Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, the official, three-student Harvard team, composed of Samuel Grushevsky '99, Dragos N. Oprea '00 and Stephen S. Wang '98, placed first in the nation, beating out Duke, Princeton and MIT and bringing a $25,000 prize to the Harvard Math Department...
...cope, publishers have been scaling back. HarperCollins roiled the authors' camp when it canceled more than 100 manuscripts in June to help clear its debt. And many other houses have quietly been pruning their lists. "I've been publishing for 18 years," says Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the upcoming The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. "Every time something happens, people say to me, 'It's a good thing you came in when you did.' But publishing is always in turmoil...
...joke shop doesn't sound like a likely place to find the perfect birthday gift, but Jack's makes present shopping surprisingly easy. Gag gifts include award ribbons proclaiming "1st Prize for Being Young and Horny," "World Champion Stud," and "Part-Time Alcoholic." A collection of "over the hill" merchandise for every age and personality type awaits the insensitive shopper...
...Knox, it's the thrill of the ride, not the big cash prize, that's indelibly inscribed in his memory. "I caught the biggest wave of my life, so in my mind I've already won," he says. "You know, I've never seen a winter this big and this good--I hope El Nino comes back again next year...
...could accuse Yusef Komunyakaa, 50, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a tenured professor at Princeton, of writing self-indulgent, feel-good verse, and he shows why in Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan University; 128 pages; $19.95). Raised in a particularly racist precinct of rural Louisiana, Komunyakaa, who is black, was drafted into the Vietnam War and assigned to write for the Southern Cross, a newspaper for infantrymen. Thirty years later, the artillery fire still echoes in his work. In "Ia Drang Valley," a slender, striking war poem both lyrical and blunt, a soldier dreams himself into...