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...YORK CITY: The bloody aftermath of the Taliban coup in Afghanistan, AIDS and the devastating damage done to world fishing supplies by ecological problems were among the topics that inspired Pulitzer Prize-winning stories this year. The big winner in the 81st annual Pulitzer Prize competition is the Times-Picayune of New Orleans, which won the public service award and the Pulitzer gold medal for its series on threats to the world's fish supply. The Times-Picayune?s Walt Handelsman added another award for editorial cartooning. Among other top winners of the awards announced by Columbia University today...
Harvard iced this contest in the 81st minute when Petruccelli calmly lofted a pass into the box for McLaughlin, who netted his Ivy-leading 12th...
...conservatives vastly outnumber liberals and the lush estates of the wealthy border the trim wood-and-stucco bungalows of the middle class. But there was a deeper shade of red last week on the faces of national Republican leaders over what the residents of Metairie, who populate Louisiana's 81st legislative district, had wrought. Some 78% of the district's 21,464 registered voters, only 52 of whom are black, had turned out to give a vacant statehouse seat to David Duke, 38, a former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who recently converted...
...cult for himself. His portrait does not adorn government offices, and his ancestral home in Sichuan, though well maintained, is virtually unknown to Chinese citizens. Still, the man and the "revolution" are inseparable, and Deng's personal popularity appears to be on the increase. At the time of his 81st birthday last month, the Chinese press published a freshly written song in his honor. After twice repeating the words "Xiaoping, hello," the lyrics continue: "Lands frozen in the past today are becoming fertile/ Ships grounded in the past today weigh anchor and sail/ Things lost in the past today...
...York Yankees announced the signing of free-agent outfielder Steve Kemp yesterday, making it the second major transaction of baseball's 81st Winter Meetings...