Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson tried to quell alumnae concerns about the college's future in June, noting in an Alumnae Day speech that the college is strong and that "our eyes are squarely on the prize of women and men in effective partnership...
Much has been made of this: candidates fighting for the prize of uber-liberal...
...prize freedom in this country. In European countries, people put caps on how much [money] you can keep. This is the country where we come and we keep what we earn," he said...
...year-old South African president and co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize will be the third person in the University's history to receive an honorary degree outside of Commencement or a celebration of a University anniversary...
Gunesekera's first novel, Reef, became a Booker Prize finalist in 1994, thanks to its meticulous evocation of the marketing of paradise (symbolized by a coral reef in Sri Lanka). His new one, The Sandglass (The New Press; 288 pages; $21.95), sweeps that theme up into an even ampler examination of how independent Sri Lanka devolved into bloody anarchy and its people got scattered around the globe. Its protagonist, essentially, is twilight, and its brief sections, following the hours of the day ("Late Morning," "Quarter to Five," "Darkness"), tell us, unequivocally, that time is running...