Before Ms. Arroyo and Mr. Santana, the actress Chita Rivera and the opera star Plácido Domingo were the only Latinos among 185 artists who had received the award since it was created in 1978 with a single criterion: excellence.
"In an area of our size we cannot have a single centre for excellence in education," he says.
Of course, there can be no such single thing because excellence takes many forms, but that you hear the statement so often from the widely and expensively travelled is noteworthy.
The problems in evaluation are linked to the lack of accepted criteria or single standard for excellence in research that crosses and combines perspectives, disciplines, and standards.
As RCs historically have been decentralised to many low-volume hospitals, it is, however, expected that the number of lymphadenectomies is low compared with reports of case series from single centres of excellence.
A single award for regional excellence is presented annually: this year, the winner is Theatre de la Jeune Lune in Minneapolis.
When the ball came back to him, though, he produced the game's single moment of technical excellence, clipping in a delightful curling left-footed cross, the touch of the match.
Nescot College, which has already been built by the Saudi government, is one of 10 single sex 'colleges of excellence' being opened, of which four will be female-only.
Mark Spitz, the man whose single Games record for excellence Phelps surpassed, has become relevant again, thanks to Lochte, whose failed bid for supremacy was reminiscent of Spitz's letdown in 1968, when he predicted many golds and left with two golds, a silver and a bronze.
This honor is annually presented to a single person who represents excellence in the fields of communication and leadership.
