In an unprecedented move, Reggie Bush relinquished his 2005 Heisman Trophy on Tuesday, choosing to give back a singularly eminent award in American sport before most likely being stripped of it.
But contrary to widespread suspicions, he said, the decision to move up the ceremony was prompted not by the nastiness of recent campaigns or even the burgeoning sums of money spent on them, but by a simple need to bolster the ceremony's sagging television ratings and protect the Oscar's status as the nation's pre-eminent awards event.
"Sarha is to roam freely, at will, without restraint," he writes in "Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape," an account of six walks in the West Bank, which won this year's Orwell Prize, Britain's pre-eminent award for political writing, and was published by Scribner in the United States in June.
Dr. Pitelka was awarded the American Ornithologists Unionn's highest honor, the Brewster Medal, in 1980, and the Eminent Ecologist Award in 1992 from the Ecological Society of America.
In 1972 she received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America, and in 1996 she was given the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography's Lifetime Achievement Award and the National Medal of Science.
The Booker prize The pre-eminent book award, the Booker prize, has also had brushes with notoriety.
In addition to her numerous honours, Davis received the Eminent Ecologist Award in 1993 from the Ecological Society of America, an organization in which she served as president from 1987 to 1988.
In 2009, he received the Kresge Foundation's Eminent Artist award, honoring nationally acclaimed artists who have pursued careers in Detroit.
His active life in the region's art scene has included teaching, board involvement and winning the Kresge Eminent Artist award in 2008.
The disjunction between those who think Pelevin is a fraud and those who see him as the ideal chronicler of the new Russia was dramatized strikingly when his 1996 novel "Chapaev and Emptiness" (to be published in the United States by Viking this spring as "Buddha's Little Finger") was excluded from the short-list of that year's Russian Booker Prize, the country's pre-eminent fiction award.
David Astley, Secretary-General of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, said, "The award has become the pre-eminent prize honouring the best coverage of children's issues.
