Word: prizes
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...Dwight Eisenhower. Military duty in command positions is not the appropriate training for political office. Politics is the art of building consensus among diverse special interests rather than the art of commanding others. The presidency should be the culmination of a career in civilian government service rather than a prize for a beloved military hero. THEODORE M. UTCHEN Wheaton, Illinois...
Freedom, as Flannery O'Connor wrote, cannot be conceived simply. Few could understand this better than Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's chief dissident and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Placed under house arrest by a military junta in 1989, Suu Kyi spent six years confined to her family's deteriorating lakeside bungalow in Rangoon. At any time, she was free to join her husband and two children in London -- knowing that the generals would never allow her back. That was a definition of freedom she refused to accept. When the junta abruptly announced last week that...
Conway received both a master's degree in history and his Ph.D. from Harvard. His dissertation won the Jay prize, an award given for exceptional scholarly work on British or American institutions...
Burma, one of the world's most repressive military regimes,stunned the international community by abruptly freeingAung San Suu Kyi-- Nobel peace prize winner and champion of the southeast Asian country's democracy movement -- from six years of house arrest. As hundreds of supporters gathered in a light rain outside her home in Rangoon, historically laconic military leaders merely noted that her sentence had expired. "No one expected this to happen," saysTIME's Sandra Burton, in the Burmese capital. "The move indicates far greater confidence on the part of the junta that neither Suu Kyi nor the people will rush...
...Howard made his stage debut at age 2 in a production of The Seven Year Itch directed by his father. Even during his days as TV's freckle-faced icon of small-town Americana, he was starting to learn the filmmaking craft. While in his teens, he won second prize in a Kodak-sponsored movie contest and briefly attended film school at the University of Southern California. Still, Hollywood was wary when Howard tried to move behind the camera. "When I set up Night Shift, most studio executives didn't want Ron to direct it," recalls his longtime producing partner...