E. L. Konigsburg, a children's author and illustrator who twice received the nation's highest award in children's literature — she won it in 1968 for her second book, edging out the runner-up, which was her own first book — died on Friday in Falls Church, Va.
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As well as a £15,000 jackpot for the winner, there is also a £3,000 prize for the runner-up, which this year was the Carnegie-winning children's author David Almond for his tale of childhood in Tyneside, Slog's Dad.
Both their choices – along with the runners-up, which include bashtag and digital native – underscore the influence social media is wielding over our language, both through its demand for brevity and the ways in which it shapes our behaviour.
In the next season, Maribor played in the second Yugoslav division and finished as the runners-up, which meant that they qualified for the Yugoslav first division promotion play-off.
A jury directed by Mr. Bangle selected a winner and runners up, which Mr. Bangle announced this week at the Beijing auto show.
Of the last 10 runners-up, which include a few surprises like the 1998 Atlanta Falcons and the 2003 Carolina Panthers, only three have made the playoffs the next year.
India's opponents in the last four will be the Group A runners-up, which could be England depending on the outcome of their final round-robin game against New Zealand on Sunday and Australia's meeting with Sri Lanka on Monday.
The best defense against Griner might be a steadfast perimeter offense, said Muffet McGraw, the coach at Notre Dame, the 2011 national runner-up, which lost to Baylor by 94-81 iNovemberer.
New Zealand play Tonga in their final Pool C game on Friday and another win would set up a quarter-final against the Pool D runners-up, which is likely to be Ireland or France.
But Quins can reflect on a Heineken Cup away win over the European heavyweights Toulouse this season – they subsequently went into the Amlin as a group runners-up – which should give them confidence.
