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In December a Moscow court took more than a month to recognize the Stockholm arbitration award and ultimately refused to honor it because it was "in breach of the public order of the Russian Federation, " said the judge in the case.

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Yamauchi then bestowed the Best in Show award honor to one of these five category winners.

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Thousands of CNN Web site users voted to award her the honor for her matchless energy working with Jordan's young people, ahead of luminaries such as peace advocate Kofi Annan, activist Wangari Maathai and environmentalist James Lovelock.

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You've honored me with this award, but if you really want to honor me, honor the sacrifices made by this new caste of citizen soldiers.

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And he announced he would award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, posthumously to Jan Karski, an officer in the Polish underground during World War II, who provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust.

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