Word: prizes
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...neutralize a potential rival in 2000. But the Republican of choice was always Cohen for Defense. Berger got the NSC job in part by default: he was offered the chief-of-staff position when Erskine Bowles at first seemed unwilling to take it, so NSC was the consolation prize. And Lake was rewarded with the CIA after being evicted from the NSC to make room for Berger...
...equally historic impact: they gave upstart Christianity an edge over Roman paganism. While pagan scholars stuck with their scrolls like modern Luddites refusing to embrace E-mail, liberal Christians leaped at the efficiencies and portability of books. The result, argues Jack Miles, a former Jesuit who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1995 book, God: A Biography, was a "technological advantage" for early Christianity. It was too much of one for the Roman Emperors, who quickly developed their own innovation: book burning...
Gilbert's evidence and his 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, however, failed to convince doubters of his theory...
...colony was brutally annexed by its neighbor Indonesia, the genocide and error that the East Timorese have endured has been completely ignored by the West. Only recently has the terrible story of this former nation been acknowledged, most notably when two Timorese activists were awarded the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize...
However, the efforts of a small number of activists in the U.S. and abroad have finally succeeded in drawing attention to the plight of the people of East Timor, who are still terrorized by a cruel occupying force. The Nobel Peace Prizes further pushed this issue onto the international agenda; the U.S. media has been paying more attention to East Timor lately as well. In the last few weeks, at least two editorials about East Timor have appeared on the oped page of The New York Times, including one yesterday by Carlos Ximenes Belo, the Catholic bishop of East Timor...