"It's also significant that the country's musical excellence includes such contrasting releases as Coldplay's worldwide number one hit album and Seth Lakeman's self-released folk record - I'm pleased that both have a place on the same shortlist".
Happiness derives from human excellence; human excellence includes the moral virtues, which are implicitly or explicitly other-regarding.
Thus, it is necessary that each centre of excellence includes a transplant unit as part of its network of institutions.
Thus, in Outliers, he offers multiple models for extraordinary excellence, including software pioneers, musicians, ice hockey players and lawyers.
He won more than 80 awards for design excellence, including the American Institute of Architects' 1995 Gold Medal, its highest honour.
This includes an overhaul of several programs focused on workforce training and development and teaching excellence, including the Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships.
They produce handmade goat's- and cow's-milk cheeses of rare excellence, including a firm, sweet, slightly caramel-flavored ricotta.
Other performance Obies went to Cherise Boothe ("Milk Like Sugar"), Steven Boyer ("Hand to God"), the acting ensemble for "Sweet and Sad," Jim Fletcher (sustained excellence, including "Gatz"), Santino Fontana ("Sons of the Prophet"), Linda Lavin ("The Lyons"), and Susan Pourfar ("Tribes").
And it is still working through the universities that have been designated as Centers and Networks of Excellence, including the Center for Nanobiotechnology at Cornell University; the Center for Scalable and Integrated Nano-Manufacturing at the University of California, Los Angeles; the Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing at Purdue University and others.
Its entire reason for being "We confirm six new public purposes for the BBC: sustaining citizenship and civil society; promoting education and learning; stimulating creativity and cultural excellence – including film; reflecting the UK's nations, regions and communities; bringing the world to the UK and the UK to the world and building Digital Britain".
Conceptions of human excellence include such disparate figures as the Homeric warrior chieftain and the Athenian statesman of the period of its imperial expansion.
