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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), are considered the most coveted of the many contemporary music awards. Despite the honor the awards carry and the ratings success of the televised awards show, many industry insiders consider the Grammys to be merely a reflection of mainstream commercial success.

The 45th Annual Grammy Awards were presented at New York's Madison Square Garden on February 23, 2003.

Ms. Jones earned five Grammys on February 23, 2003. Ms. Jones is the daughter of New York concert producer, Sue Jones, and Indian Sitar Maestro, Ravi Shankar. She got following Graamy awards.

Record: “Don't Know Why,” Norah Jones

Album: Come Away with Me, Norah Jones

Song: “Don't Know Why,” Jesse Harris, songwriter (Norah Jones)

New Artist: Norah Jones

Female Pop Vocal: “Don't Know Why,” Norah Jones

Booker Prize
Britain's most prestigious literary award is presented each Oct. or Nov. by the National Book League in the United Kingdom, for the best full-length novel written in English by a citizen of a current or former British Commonwealth country.It has been awarded since 1969 by the British engineering company. The name of the award changed in 2002 from the Booker Prize, or officially the Booker McConnell Prize, to the Man Booker Prize, and the purse increased from $30,000 to $75,000. (Book's current publisher is listed in parentheses.)

1969 Something to Answer For, P. H. Newby (out of print)

1970 The Elected Member, Bernice Rubens (Abacus [Little Brown U.K.])

1971 In a Free State, V. S. Naipaul (Random House) paper

1972 G.: A Novel, John Berger (Vintage) paper

1973 The Siege of Krishnapur, J. G. Farrell (Carroll & Graf) paper

1974 (tie) The Conservationist, Nadine Gordimer (Viking) paper Holiday, Stanley Middleton (out of print)

1975 Heat and Dust, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Peter Smith)

1976 Saville, David Storey (Vintage) U.K.

1977 Staying On, Paul Scott (Univ. of Chicago Press) paper

1978 The Sea, The Sea, Iris Murdoch (Viking) paper

1979 Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald (Mariner) paper

1980 Rites of Passage, William Golding (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

1981 Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie (Knopf)

1982 Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally (Simon & Schuster)

1983 Life & Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee (Viking) paper

1984 Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner (Vintage) paper

1985 The Bone People, Keri Hulme (Viking) paper

1986 The Old Devils, Kingsley Amis (Penguin) U.K.

1987 Moon Tiger, Penelope Lively (Grove/Atlantic) paper

1988 Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey (Vintage) paper

1989 The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (Vintage) paper

1990 Possession: A Romance, A. S. Byatt (Vintage) paper

1991 The Famished Road, Ben Okri (Anchor) paper

1992 The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (Knopf)
Sacred Hunger, Barry Unsworth (W. W. Norton & Company) paper

1993 Paddy Clarke, Ha Ha Ha, Roddy Doyle (Penguin USA) paper

1994 How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman (Delta) paper

1995 The Ghost Road, Pat Barker (Dutton)

1996 Last Orders, Graham Swift (Knopf)

1997 The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy (Random House)

1998 Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (Doubleday)

1999 Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee (Viking)

2000 The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood (Random House)

2001 True History of the Kelly Gang, Peter Carey (Knopf)

2002 Life of Pi, Yann Martel (Harcourt Brace)

Al Neuharth Free Spirit Award
The Al Neuharth Free Spirit Award is given annually by the Freedom Forum to a person in the news who has stirred the public’s hearts and souls by demonstrating the human capacity to dream, dare and do. The award carries a prize that can be as high as $1 million. The award was named for Neuharth, founder of the Freedom Forum, upon his retirement from the board of the Freedom Forum.

The Freedom Forum, based in Arlington, Va., is a nonpartisan foundation dedicated to free press, free speech and free spirit for all people. The foundation focuses on three priorities: the Newseum, First Amendment and newsroom diversity.

The Freedom Forum was established in 1991 under the direction of Founder Allen H. Neuharth as successor to a foundation started in 1935 by newspaper publisher Frank E. Gannett.

Aung San Suu Kyi, dedicated advocate of democracy for the 48 million people of Burma who are ruled by a military dictatorship, has been selected by the Freedom Forum to receive the 2002 Al Neuharth Free Spirit of the Year Award. The 2002 award carries a $1 million prize.Aung San Suu Kyi was selected to receive the 2002 award for her free-spirited, non-violent struggle for human rights and democracy. Her release from house arrest in May 2002 brought renewed world attention to her heroic efforts to bring freedom to Burma.

Al Neuharth Free Spirit of the Year Award recipients

2002 - Aung San Suu Kyi ($1 million award)

2001 - Erik Weihenmayer ($250,000 award)
            Alice Randall ($250,000 award)
            Donald Woods ($250,000 award)
            Brig. Gen. Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager ($250,000 award)

2000 - Elian Gonzalez ($1 million in his honor for youth refugees)

1998 - Father John E. Adams ($10,000)
            Andrew Carroll ($10,000)
            Paul Q. Chow ($10,000)
            Dodo Cheney ($10,000)
            Marjorie Deneke ($10,000)
            Charles E. Eriksen ($10,000)
            Nick Irons ($10,000)
            JoAnn Kauffman ($10,000)
            Tsuyako “Sox” Kitashima ($10,000)
            Aaron Smith ($10,000)
            Keen Umbehr ($10,000)
            Mother Mary Ann Wright ($10,000)

1997 - Shannon Lucid ($25,000 in her honor to the NASA College Scholarship Fund)
Ruth Ziolkowski ($100,000 to the Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation)

1995 - Myrlie Evers-Williams ($100,000 in her honor to the NAACP)
Barbara Bush ($100,000 to the George Bush Presidential Library)

1994 - David Clark ($10,000)
            Jaime Escalante ($10,000)
            Reuben Greenberg ($10,000)
            Mary Hannick ($10,000)
            Alex Hwang ($10,000)
            K.W. Lee ($10,000)
            Wilma Mankiller ($10,000)
            Dorothy McPhillips ($10,000)
            Chuck Stone ($10,000)
            Jerry Thompson ($10,000)
Endeavour astronauts who repaired the Hubble Space Telescope:
            Richard Covey
            Story Musgrave
            Kenneth D. Bowersox
            Tom Akers
            Jeffrey Hoffman
            Claude Nicollier
            Kathryn Thornton
($250,000 to the NASA College Scholarship Fund)
            Robert C. Maynard ($100,000)

1993 - William Joseph Brennan ($100,000)
            Thurgood Marshall ($100,000)
            Jim Abbott ($100,000 to The Amigos de los Niños)
            Eunice Kennedy Shriver ($100,000 to the Special Olympics International)

1992 - Terry Anderson ($245,500)

Best 10 Books - Survey by Orange
Arundhati Roy's Booker prize winning novel The God of Small Things was voted 20th best ina list of the best 50 novels by a women. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was voted the "best loved novel". 6,000 people polled in a survey sponserd by Orange. Only 2 books in the top 10 were by living authors - Unless by Canadian writer Carol Shields at 9th and To Kill A Mocking Bird, Harpers lee's novel on racial strains in America's deep south in the 1930s at 10th. 4 Potter novels are in the top 50.
The 10 Best

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Middle March - George Eliot

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

Persuasion - Jane Austen

Frankentein - Mary Shelley

Emma - Jane Austen

Unless - Carol Shields

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

First Abel Prize
The French mathematician, jean-Pierre Serre, was awarded the first Abel Prize in mathematicis on April 3, for his role in shaping algebric geomtery and number theory. The 6 million kroner ($826,800) prize is awarded by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Born in 1926, Prof. Serre received the prize for his role in shaping the modern form of many parts of mathematics, including topology, algebric geometry and number theory. Topology is used to question what remains the same in geometry even when length is distorted. Algebraic geometry examines the use of polynomial equations. Number theory is the study of the basic properties of numbers. Named for 19th century Norwegian mathematician, Niels Henrik Abel, the award was created in 2002 after the Norwegian Government gave 200 million kroner ($27.5 millions to fund the prize honouring international mathmatics. Abel lived from 1802 to 1829.

Pulitzer Prize
The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer Prize, journalism's highest honour, for its coverage of corporate scandals in Ameraica. In addition to the journal's prize, for explanatory reporting, the pulitzer committee awarded three prizes to both Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. Boston Globe won the public-service award for its coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

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