Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wise, however, to remember Republican history. As the real voting draws nearer, the front runner invariably loses some market share, and the electorate expresses its dissatisfaction with the field. And then the front runner captures the prize anyway, as the G.O.P.'s leaders have done ever since the party began holding primaries almost 50 years...
Practical considerations also played a part in Perot's change of mind. His legal advisers told him that election laws in most states would bar using the party strictly as a pressure device--that is, to offer an extra ballot line as a prize to Republican or Democratic congressional candidates who toe Perot's line. Meanwhile, most U.W.S.A. chapters are not up to the Herculean task of fund-raising and recruiting efforts that would be necessary to field their own slates everywhere. In fact, the organization has suffered periodically from internal feuds within states and from tension between local activists...
While the eyes are being ravished, so are the ears. Conductor Jane Glover leads a scintillating performance by unusually nimble-fingered string players and by singers of passionate virtuosity--notably countertenor David Daniels in the title role and soprano Dana Hanchard as his reluctant Turkish prize. What seems at first arcane and distant becomes hypnotically human--opera on a level of taste, imagination and musicality that would do any of the world's most celebrated opera houses proud...
Harvard Medical School (HMS) has decided not to censure a Pulitzer Prize-winning faculty member who studies people convinced they were abducted by aliens for sexual experiments...
...Mack founded the psychiatry departmentat Cambridge Hospital, one of Harvard's teachinghospitals, and is currently the director of theProgram for Extraordinary Experience Research atthe Harvard-affiliated Center for Psychology andSocial Research. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1977for his biography of Lawrence of Arabia...