Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the teenage punks to the Nobel laureates cited in the latter article, make a conscious decision to study, work, and spend time in Harvard Square because it is special. Students in search of fast food might consider that, like their Harvard degrees, the effort required to get the prize only makes it taste the sweeter. Catherine Schellenberg, Harvard University Staff
Miracle worker or not, Mother Teresa was now a media star. A decade after the documentary, she received the Nobel Peace Prize because "poverty and distress also constitute a threat to peace." At her request, the traditional banquet was canceled so the $7,000 cost could go to the poor. "We need to tell the poor that they are somebody to us," she told the audience of rich and honored guests, "that they too have been created by the same loving hand of God, to love and be loved...
...architect who reworked vernacular forms into designs of haunting beauty; after a car accident; in Milan, Italy. The Cemetery of San Cataldo in Modena, Italy--a colonnaded arcade of chilling austerity--is one example of the poetic use of space that won him architecture's highest honor, the Pritzker Prize...
...Foregone Conclusion Award: to Charles V. Willie's "Af-Am 193w: Contribution of Black Colleges to Higher Education in the United States." Willie also finished dead last in the highly contested Vaguest Course Title category (a.k.a. the Social Studies Prize...
What is the ultimate prize in the current campaign finance investigations? Answer: Al Gore's head. More than anything else, Fred Thompson & Co. would dearly love to catch the Veep red-handed in some hard-money misdeed. But no matter how hard they sniff, the trail always seems to run cold at Gore's door...