Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House believes Carter may be useful. Still, there were misgivings that stemmed not only from Carter's reputation for loose-cannon diplomacy and coddling dictators but also from a fear that his good offices would grant the Bosnian Serbs a legitimacy that is so far the only prize the international community has been able to deny them. Administration officials briefed the former President on Bosnia. "He will see all the players rather than be Karadzic's front man," said a senior U.S. official. "Carter sees his role as helping Karadzic out of the corner he's painted himself into...
...true. In 1938, however, a Polish teenager would be singled out for what would eventually be an appointment with prophecy. In that year, Karol Wojtyla was a student -- and an actor of considerable promise -- at a secondary school in the grimy industrial town of Wadowice. As the school's prize orator, he was asked to deliver a speech welcoming a grand visitor, the princely Adam Sapieha, scion of a noble house and, more important, Archbishop of nearby Cracow. Sapieha was clearly impressed, so much so that he inquired after Wojtyla, asking what he hoped to do with his life...
Remember when popular movies had women in them? In 1994's top films, the ladies were lucky if the guys let them even drive a bus. The typical female role was a captive or a pinup, wounded faun (Forrest Gump) or ditsy wife (True Lies). For its Best Actress prize, the New York Film Critics had to go to a TV movie (The Last Seduction's Linda Fiorentino). Affirmative action is demode these days, but Hollywood needs some spur to bring women into full partnership with the Toms and Arnolds and Simbas...
Each year, the Committee that administers the award chooses a scientist from a different field of biology to receive the prize...
According to the Committee for the International Prize for Biology, "the special quality of Mayr as a researcher lies in the fact that he started as a naturalist and has continued, to his present age of 90, to be an observing and thinking naturalist...