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This is old-fashioned populism reshaped for the media-celebrity age: No speaker here received half the ovation that was awarded to Granny D, a tiny, 89-year-old great-grandmother from New Hampshire who is midway through a coast-to-coast walk to lobby for campaign finance reform.

"It's simply unavoidable that there will be costs which must be recovered," says Brendan Paddy, communications director at the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC), which received half the £1.3m proceeds from Everybody Hurts, the charity single released last year in response to the Haitian earthquake.

"Usually, they are as fast as Chinese food in New York," said Barry Bryant of Brightwaters, N.Y., a high school teacher who still has not received half the items he ordered from Amazon on Dec. 9 despite the promise of immediate shipment.

Because he put up the cash, McKeon also received half the $10 million transaction fee that DynCorp paid when the deal closed in February 2005, court papers show.

He shared the prize with physicists Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever, who jointly received half the award for their own work on quantum tunnelling.

His former wife, Lanna Pai, received half the proceeds.

The agreement called for Mr. Allen's company to receive half the "adjusted gross proceeds" that Sweetland received from the films.

In addition, the villagers receive half the entrance fees to the park, now visited by 10,000 tourists a year.

Individual artists will receive half the appreciation in their work; the rest will go to less successful colleagues.

] One of the physics award winners, Dr. Ruska, now 79 years old, will receive half the $290,000 physics prize.

Professor O'Keefe receives half the prize money of 8m Swedish Kroner, and the Mosers share the other half, in recognition of his seminal role in the joint effort.