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...addition to his Pulitzer, Diamond has received numerous honors including a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant, the Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Prize, and the National Science Medal...
...club whose ranks have begun to swell with people nominated purely for their celebrity rather than any loftier merits. That list grew further, Thursday, when President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the title on Canadian singer Céline Dion, welcoming her into the company of Alexis de Tocqueville, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gustave Flaubert, Alexander Graham Bell and Albert Dreyfus - and also Jerry Lewis. Not surprisingly, some observers suggest that the contrast in achievements of its various honorees has cheapened the medal to the point of self-parody...
Founded in 1997 with a gift by the Berkman family, the research center will now be funded by the University, in addition to other sources such as the MacArthur Foundation and the Law School itself, according to William W. Fisher, the faculty director of the center...
...financial start in 2005 with the backing of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which provided a $10 million seed grant, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which contributed an additional $2.5 million to the project...
...missives, written by gay GIs who had met at an Army base in Missouri and stayed in touch throughout World War II, told vivid stories of love, friendly nightspots and the difficulties of being gay in the military. The resulting 1990 book, Coming Out Under Fire, won Berube a MacArthur award, inspired a Peabody-winning documentary and is widely considered the definitive piece of scholarship on the subject. He was 61 and died of complications from stomach ulcers...