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These days, it seems, a book's not a book if it ain't got a seal on it. There's the Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize, Oprah's Book Club, and, on Nov. 19, the 58th annual National Book Awards (NBA) ceremony - in which the National Book Foundation will present four $10,000 prizes to an author in each category: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. Judges - who are writers nominated by past NBA winners, finalists and judges and then selected by the foundation's board - hold deliberations independently of board and staff members. Winners are only...
...wall, and four times the Crimson’s miracle train has kept on chugging.Other than the week two loss at Brown, Harvard has managed to come up with big play after big play to secure unbelievably close victories.Saturday’s win was no different.The game-sealing interception with less than 15 seconds left saved Harvard from many things, not the least of which was losing an Ivy League title shot next weekend against Yale—a sort of redemption after the team came down to Philadelphia two years ago with the same hope and left empty-handed.But...
...Wylie stepped into the box. After having one of her best games of the season—she tallied a goal and an assist on the night—she looked to put a capper on her stellar performance. But her shot went wide, giving Northeastern an opportunity to seal the game on its next attempt. The Huskies did not blink, winning the penalty shootout 4-2.The team was strong to the end, but sometimes, the fates do not align.“We should be able to handle the physical part of going to overtime over and over...
...help bolster its reputation, the school obtained accreditation from both regional standard bearers and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), the professional body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education for certifying teacher-preparation programs. (WGU remains the only online institution that has NCATE's seal of approval.) Such moves were designed to "lend WGU more legitimacy as an educational institution," says Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, who helped found the school when he was governor of Utah. (See TIME's special report on college costs...
...Ottawa agree to insure the money they routinely borrow from other banks, a practice that keeps their credit operations liquid? Ironically, the troubled non-Canadian institutions that received capital injections and loan guarantees in other countries now carry a government seal of approval that tilts the playing field in their favor when it comes to borrowing. That leaves Canada's big banks, including Scotiabank, TD Bank Financial Group, RBC Royal Bank and CIBC, at a competitive disadvantage. So the government acted to level the field, not to aid troubled banks. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...