French philosopher, US historian share prestigious US humanities award
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A French philospher and a US historian are sharing this year's one million dollar John W. Kluge Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences, officials at the US Library of Congress announced.
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Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss," winner last fall of the Man Booker Prize, received another literary honor Thursday night: the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
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French fashion designer Emanuel Ungaro, British actress Kristin Scott Thomas and French politician Nicholas Sarkozy have won entry into France's prestigious Legion of Honor.
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Brian Selznick's obsessions with old French movies, automatons, clockworks and the filmmaker Georges MÃ©liÃ¨s inspired âThe Invention of Hugo Cabret,â which earlier this month won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.
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France's pride in its thinkers was splashed all over the news in praise of Jacques Derrida, who died last weekend.
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Jacques Derrida, the Algerian-born French intellectual who became one of the most celebrated and notoriously difficult philosophers of the late 20th century, died Friday at a Paris hospital, the French president&#39;s office announced.
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President Jacques Chirac made U.S. film director Steven Spielberg a knight in the French Legion of Honor on Sunday, hailing him as a great filmmaker committed to fighting hatred and intolerance.
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Historian Douglas L. Wilson has won his second Lincoln Prize for outstanding scholarship about the late president.
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Two U.S. scientists won the 2004 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for showing how the sense of smell enables people to recall, for instance, the scent of spring lilac in winter or the stench of rotten food eaten long ago.
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President Jacques Chirac awarded the Legion d'Honneur order to actor and director Clint Eastwood on Saturday, calling his latest films lessons in humanity.
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US director Clint Eastwood is awarded France's highest civilian distinction, the Legion d'honneur.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s more than 20 books shaped discussions for two generations about Americaâs past.
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The Greatest is now an Ivy League doctor. Muhammad Ali has been awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities from Princeton University.
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Q&amp;A: The Nobel Prize winner  -  and runner-up for TIME Person of the Year  -  talks about why it's hard to celebrate his honor
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Two US scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for their pioneering work in genetics.
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NEW YORK -- Pioneers in psychotherapy and cell biology and three scientists who discovered a crucial enzyme linked to cancer and aging are being awarded prestigious medical prizes.
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French President Jacques Chirac on Tuesday praised outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell, calling him a man of dialogue and vision.