M. (NYSE: PNC). He made history as the first American astronaut to
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in space. Queen Noor is internationally recognized for her tireless
efforts to address global peace-building, human rights and conflict recovery
issues. His Broadway directing credits include hits such as Barefoot in
the Park, The Odd Couple and Plaza Suite. Dove is
one of America's leading and most honored contemporary poets, renowned for the
diversity and creative range of her work. He has anchored major breaking news
stories, most recently the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina along the
Gulf Coast. WASHINGTON, Robert Penn Warren -- the first
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After graduating summa cum laude from Vanderbilt, earning a master's
degree from the University of California, and pursuing additional studies at
Yale and Oxford, Warren held academic positions at several universities,
including Louisiana State University. His book won the Pulitzer
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enrolled at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, where a composition class
taught by poet John Crowe Ransom helped him see his world as "the stuff of
poetry. His eventual body of
work , spanning over six decades, included 16 volumes of poetry, 10 novels, a
collection of short stories and college textbooks on poetry and fiction." His poetic musings were often conversational or colloquial , with a
stylistic boldness that could reach the sublime, especially in his later
years.
Warren received scores of other awards as well, including the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1980 .

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Queen Noor of Jordan, a leading voice for global peace-building,
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the Corner, Thomas and Beulah, which received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in
Poetry, On the Bus with Rosa Parks, and her latest poetry collection , American
Smooth., and is part of a week-long series of events celebrating the 100th
anniversary of Warren's birth. Postal Service,
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The honorees will receive a shared prize of $250,000 at the Common Wealth
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Touma also provides free internships to students who are
interested in learning about television. He teaches them how to
produce, direct , operate technical equipment, and fully edit a show.S.5 million in prize money to 157 honorees of international renown. In
2005, Nichols earned his eighth lifetime Tony Award as director of the smash
musical , Spamalot. As the host of CNN's Anderson
Cooper 360, an unconventional, wide-ranging news program , he is the leading
voice of a new generation of journalists. Cooper has
won several awards for his work, including a National Headliners Award for his
tsunami coverage and an Emmy Award for his contribution to ABC's coverage of
Princess Diana's funeral."
Joining Wright are Warren's children , Gabriel Warren and Roseanna Warren
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During the program, local students ,
who write and submit their own poems, are selected to appear on the
show and recite their work . Through the Common Wealth Awards, he sought to
recognize outstanding achievement in seven disciplines: dramatic arts,
literature, science and invention, mass communications, public service,
government , and sociology. Other winners include
former Secretary of State Colin Powell; children's television icon, the late
Fred Rogers; Broadway choreographer Susan Stroman; primatologist Jane Goodall;
ocean explorer Robert Ballard; actress Meryl Streep and television journalist
Walter Cronkite. Dove is Commonwealth Professor of English at the University of
Virginia.

m. "His powerful ability as a poet and author -- as
three Pulitzer Prizes attest -- is unmatched. He once confided to a friend
that while he had set out to write another novel, "nothing but poems would
come. "What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-
understanding?" he wrote in a memorable 1985 essay. He died on September 15, 1989, in West Wardsboro,
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The roster of past honorees reveals the caliber of talent and the global
scope of the honorees and their achievements. For more than 25 years, she has devoted herself to initiatives
concerning women and children's welfare, education, the arts and culture,
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Centers nationwide on Saturday, April 23 .
Though readers saw similarities between Huey "Kingfish" Long, a Louisiana
politician felled by an assassin's bullet, and the fictional Stark, Warren
maintained that Stark was not meant to be Long .com/shop.15

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For 21 years, Touma has been helping at-risk students through
poetry.
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aviation, space exploration and service to his country. Nichols has directed standout movies
including, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, which earned him an
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This gives these students a chance to
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Best of all, Touma lets these students learn by actually doing , as
each and every episode of Wee Poets is produced by the students. Hayes conceived
the awards to reward and encourage the best of human performance worldwide.
"The 2006 Common Wealth Award winners represent the spectrum of human
endeavors and the finest of human achievement," said Connie Bond Stuart,
chairman, president and CEO of PNC Bank, Delaware."
Hayes served on the board of directors of PNC Bank, Delaware's predecessor
banks from 1943 to 1965. He is a decorated
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Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, 54, wins the 2006 Common Wealth Award
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On hand to honor Adnan Touma was Emmy nominated actor and Broadway
star Jaime Farr who played Corporal Klinger on the most watched
television show of all time, M*A*S*H*!
The California Lottery's "Heroes in Education" award has been
presented monthly on "The Big Spin(R)" show, since 1999. Glenn further distinguished himself as an American political leader,
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This stamp, 21st in the Literary Arts series, recognizes the achievements
of Robert Penn Warren, a three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the only
writer to win the prize in poetry "Promises: Poems, 1954-1956" in 1958, and
"Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978" in 1979 as well as fiction "All the King's
Men," 1947.
Warren's best-known novel, "All the King's Men" (1946 ), was set in
Louisiana in the 1930s, a time and place he knew well from his years at
Louisiana State University. Herrman, Carlsbad, CA
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Mike Nichols, 74, wins the 2006 Common Wealth Award for Dramatic Arts.
Rita Dove, 53, wins the 2006 Common Wealth Award for Literature.
Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, KY, on April 24, 1905." Fusing fact with fiction,
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, Five leaders and achievers in
the arts and public service will be honored tonight with the 27th annual
Common Wealth Awards of Distinguished Service. Queen Noor chairs the King Hussein Foundation
dedicated to furthering her late husband's commitment to peace, cross-cultural
understanding and the advancement of democracy.
ceremony April 22 in Penn's hometown of Guthrie, KY.
Outside the classroom, Warren wrote as often as possible.
Poetry was Warren's greatest literary love. In "Evening Hawk," one of his most famous poems, Warren used bird
imagery to contemplate time's passage: "His wing / Scythes down another day
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With the 2006 presentation, the awards will have conferred more than
$3 . She
has leadership roles with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines and the
Landmine Survivors Network. She served as Poet Laureate of the
United States from 1993 to 1995, the youngest person and first African
American to hold the post.
The ceremony will take place at the Robert Penn Warren Museum at 122
Cherry St.
"It is an honor to celebrate the life and accomplishments of Robert Penn
Warren," said Ann Wright, Kentuckiana District Manager, U.
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