Donaire, the WBO super-bantamweight champion, received the prestigious Fighter of the Year award from the Boxing Writers Association of America on Thursday.

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After four weeks on the picket lines, the Writers Guild of America has received a new proposal from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.

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And on the eve of the publication of The Grapes of Wrath, she had lauded him as "one of our major creative writers in America today, " a literary force on par with Faulkner, Hemingway, Saroyan, and Dos Passos.

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When the Writers Guild of America traded its pencils for picket signs on Nov. 5, late-night talk shows were the first casualty, heading into repeats nearly immediately.

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The Writers' Guild of America stopped negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers on 1 March over wage disagreements.

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Instead of evaluating the meritorious careers of the candidates on the ballot by thoroughly studying their statistical achievements and contributions, the Baseball Writers Association of America is now wrestling with the moral conundrum of sifting through a laundry list of confirmed, accused or rumored cheaters by using the subjective criteria of sportsmanship, integrity and character.

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But if it wanted to order more programmes while the strike is on, it could be a problem for Herskovitz, who is a member of the Writers Guild of America.

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He fell well short of the 75% of the vote required for induction last year, with his name appearing on just 62.1% of ballots cast by voting members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

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