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...name,” said Alex S. Jones, a former New York Times journalist who is the director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Policy. “It’s the oldest and best known university in the United States.” Pulitzer-Prize winning writer Michael C. Winerip ’74 said in an interview that his 2007 New York Times article about Harvard admissions shot to the top of the paper’s “most e-mailed” list in part because of his repeated references...
...began publishing poetry. Only one year after publishing his first volume of poetry, his second, “Death of a Naturalist,” received the E.C. Gregory award, given by the British Society of Authors to writers under 30, as well as the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, given to authors under 40. His next book, “Door Into the Dark,” was published in 1969, and established Heaney as a major figure in the poetry world. Heaney published steadily during the 1970s, including his acclaimed volume “North?...
...legal issues in order to pursue their enormous installation projects. Their talk lasted 45 minutes, and there were 81 slides.Christo and Jeanne-Claude were in town to receive the Great Negotiators award from the Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. Previous winners of the yearly prize have usually been affiliated with international diplomacy; this is the first time artists have received the award. As the event progressed, it become more and more clear not only how persuasive Christo and Jeanne-Claude must be in order to gain permission and support their controversial projects, but also how central...
...clashed with the Bush Administration and weathered protests stemming from his negotiations with Tehran, and he has been chided for wavering when forced to confront intractable leaders. But it's been a decorated run as well: in 2005, ElBaradei and the IAEA were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vienna-based agency kicks off its 52nd General Conference on Sept...
That's the polite way of saying that in the seemingly endless series of debates during the Democratic primaries, Obama often meandered through his answers, as if the prize went to the candidate who could produce the greatest quantity of well-spoken prose rather than the one who made the most trenchant points...