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...basis of the raison dietre of all higher education. It is not until a university can in some such way establish a vital relationship with the community in which it exists that it will thrive. And the value of an academic degree is very little lessened by its award to a man whose achievements are not to be listed in the academic category. But as soon as such non-academic achievements are accepted on the standard of popular favor, the game becomes not diverting but ridiculous, and a little bit dangerous. Diplomacy is better applied elsewhere than in the awarding...
This year’s Tribute to Black Men also saw the inauguration of the Dr. S. Allen Counter Distinguished Faculty and Administration Award, given this year to its namesake. Counter is director of the Harvard Foundation, a University intercultural foundation...
Penning a memoir at age 26 takes cojones. Winning a British Book Award for it takes the world's most famous left foot, a former Spice Girl wife and a public adoring enough to make it the nation's fastest-selling biography of all time. Published last fall, soccer star DAVID BECKHAM'S My Side has sold more than 1 million copies, earning it a special prize for popular success at the awards last week. Beckham couldn't quite savor the victory, however, as he was also getting kicked around by the British press for an alleged affair with...
...Jones published a collection of stories called Lost in the City, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and he started thinking about doing a novel. He was haunted by something he had learned in college: Before the Civil War, some free blacks in the South owned slaves. He turned this fact over in his mind for almost 10 years, mentally charting out his fictional territory and populating it with characters. "I'd be thinking it through as I was living my life," he remembers. "I'm on the bus, I'm walking up and down the aisles of Safeway, you know...
...refine the allure with an advertising campaign featuring a stunning series of photographs of attractions ranging from Himalayan peaks to deserted, pristine beaches to Ayurvedic massages--all accompanied by the slogan "Incredible India." The tourism industry is experiencing its "best year ever," says G.P. Francis, general manager of the award-winning boutique Malabar House in Kerala, a southern coastal state that rivals Thailand as the home of the Asian...