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...family member; and just seven have returned to state care. Hope's adoption rate from 1994 to '99 was more than three times the average rate of adoption and guardianship for foster kids in the state as a whole. Its initial success has inspired an Excellence in Adoption award from President Clinton, backing from TV-talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell, a book (Hope Meadows, by journalist Wes Smith) and grass-roots support from community leaders across the country eager to set up their own models...
Held in San Francisco’s majestic War Memorial Opera House, the awards ceremony, dubbed the “Oscars” of the Internet, was hosted by Tony Award-winning actor Alan Cumming...
Once guests crossed the red carpet into the Opera House, they were greeted by garlands of sunflowers and elaborate displays from the various sponsors. On one end of the room, nominees could even kneel before a displayed Webby award and “pray” for victory...
This year’s telecast also featured the first-ever Webby Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to Ray Tomlinson and Douglas Engelbart, two of the pioneers in the development of the modern computer experience. Tomlinson is credited with inventing e-mail, Engelbart with the mouse. Andy Grove, the CEO of Intel, presented the duo their awards...
...nomination for the screenplay. He also wrote prolifically on such political topics as the Quebec separatist movement, scoffing at the law banning exterior signs in any language but French as "linguistic cleansing." His novels Cocksure (1968) and St. Urbain's Horseman (1971) both won the Governor General's Literary Award, Canada's highest writing prize...