"Your job," explains the award's colourful founder Loebner, to his four nervous volunteers, "is to convince the judges that you are the human".
The brief also said that, in explaining the award, "the arbitrators trespassed upon the domain of the judiciary".
But there he was, George Jellinek, former music director of WQXR (96.3 FM), explaining the award that was established in his name.
"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.
She still didn't know what was up until chemical and biomolecular engineering department chair (and chair of the Faculty Committee for GSI Affairs) Jeffrey Reimer explained the award in a nutshell and congratulated her for winning one this year.
As the Associated Press explained, the award's committee will not identify the nominees before announcing a winner in October.
As an Army captain, Hopkins carried medical supplies across an open area, "braving shrapnel from exploding mortar rounds," according to the letter explaining the award.
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...
"These prizes celebrate the best of the work of literary translators, and at the same time generate further interest in translated books and literary translation," explains the society's awards secretary, Paula Johnson.
Even in cases in which the courts engage in the lodestar calculation (the product of reasonable hours and a reasonable hourly rate), the client's recovery generally explains the pattern of awards better than the lodestar.
