Even aside from the humane instinct to help a city caked in red ink and black memories, Democrats should consider New York lucky; when they've nominated winners, it was in Madison Square Garden -- Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.
But while the outstanding scientists were soaking up the well-deserved recognition, officials from the eight agencies that nominated winners were clucking at some extraordinary foot dragging by the Bush Administration.
There is no need to look to a government agency to nominate winners and losers in the telecom industry when the market seems capable of sorting through the transition from monopoly to competition.THEODORE PAYNEMorristown, New JerseyYeltsin's legacySIR You are off-beam in your interpretation of Boris Yeltsin's politics and its implications for Russia ("Boris Yeltsin's latest gamble", May 15th).
(The play itself was also nominated; the winner that year was "Luther" by John Osborne).
Of the ten animal heroes nominated, the winner and two runners-up will be chosen by a panel of judges, including actresses Kristin Bell and Sally Pressman, and Jay Kopelman, an Iraq war veteran, author and founder of the nonprofit, Freedom Is Not Free.
The prize differs in other ways, too: anyone can nominate a winner online, and the selection panel is public, in contrast to the secretive gathering and closed voting process that decides the Nobel prizes each year.
The last hoorah, do or die time, use it or lose it — your last chance to nominate a winner for the coveted Crunchies Awards.
Consequently, the Democratic Party was anxious to nominate a winner.
The party decided that nominating a winner would trump nominating an ideologically rarified candidate.
Jan Chapman has produced some of Australia's most critically successful and popular films – including Palme d'Or nominated Bright Star, AFI Best Film winner, Lantana and Academy Award® winner The Piano.
