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<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: "Deborah Rosencrans"
<castor@MIT.EDU></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: Elie Wiesel Foundation - Prize
in Ethics</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:27:08
-0400</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">Elie Wiesel
Foundation - Prize in Ethics Essay Contest</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">For those that
do not know, Elie Wiesel was a survivor of the Nazi death camp in
Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He was a journalist and he is a writer,
professor and a truly values human life.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">"In 1978,
President Jimmy Carter appointed Elie Wiesel as Chairman of the
President's Commission on the Holocaust. In 1980, he became the
Founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He
is also the Founding President of the Paris-based Universal Academy of
Cultures and the Chairman of The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity,
an organization he and his wife created to fight indifference,
intolerance and injustice. Elie Wiesel has received more than 100
honorary degrees from institutions of higher
learning.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">A devoted
supporter of Israel, Elie Wiesel has also defended the cause of Soviet
Jews, Nicaragua's Miskito Indians, Argentina's Desaparecidos,
Cambodian refugees, the Kurds, victims of famine and genocide in
Africa, of apartheid in South Africa, and victims of war in the former
Yugoslavia. For more than ten years, Elie and his wife Marion have
been especially devoted to the cause of Ethiopian-born Israeli youth
through the Foundation's Beit Tzipora Centers for Study and
Enrichment.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">For his literary
and human rights activities, he has received numerous awards including
the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal
and the Medal of Liberty Award, and the rank of Grand-Croix in the
French Legion of Honor. In 1986, Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Prize for
Peace, and soon after, Marion and Elie Wiesel established The Elie
Wiesel Foundation for Humanity."
(http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org)</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">Please encourage
juniors and seniors to apply for this prestigious prize in ethics
essay contest:</font> <a
href="http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/"><font
face="Courier New">http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org</font></a><font
face="Courier New"> deadline is December 19,
2008.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">I do not believe
there has been an MIT winner, I could be wrong.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">Tomorrow is Elie
Wiesel's 80th Birthday!</font> <a
href=
"http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/elie-wiesel-reflects-on-turning-80/?hp"><span
></span
>http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/elie-wiesel-reflects-on<span
></span>-turning-80/?hp</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Courier New">Thanks,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Courier New">Deborah</font></blockquote>
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face="Courier New">*************************************</font></blockquote
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">Deborah S.
Rosencrans</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">Assistant
Director, Internship Programs</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">Global Education
and Career Development Center</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">Massachusetts
Institute of Technology</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">Building
12-170</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">77 Massachusetts
Avenue</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Courier New">Cambridge</font>, MA 02139</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">TEL:
617-253-4733</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Courier New">FAX:
617-253-8457</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Courier New">http://careers.mit.edu/</font></blockquote>
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