"Your job," explains the award's colourful founder Loebner, to his four nervous volunteers, "is to convince the judges that you are the human".
"With a unanimous winner at this early stage we decided it would be a sham to compose a shortlist and put five other writers through unnecessary stress and suspense," explained the award's director, Pat Cotter.
As the Associated Press explained, the award's committee will not identify the nominees before announcing a winner in October.
Read the entire Nobel Peace Prize announcement, to learn the thinking behind the choice, where it's explained the award goes to: "Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzay for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education...
Explaining the Bono award, Cindi Leive, the magazine's editor, pointed out that this powerful older man, unlike Glamour's female winners, "could select any cause in the world to call his own".
The DLA spokesman, when explaining the contracts awarded to Anham, said they would "guarantee that there's no interruption in the support that we give to the war fighter".
He received the award for explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation.
To deserve its special role, arbitration requires that the neutral receive evidence, normally done at an informal hearing, and issue an opinion explaining the reasons for the ultimate award either granting or denying the grievance in whole or in part.
