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Awards and certificates of recognition spoke to a distinguished career, including one signed by the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — “She got the accent right on my name.”

Reid is widowed and despite a distinguished career as an astronaut, he considers his time as an only parent as his "greatest challenge and the most rewarding phase" of his life.

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The Fountain has a rich history of producing plays that are distinguished as much for their poetic as their political daring.

In 2014, the Documentary Assn. gave him the Career Achievement Award from for having had “a major impact on the documentary genre though a long and distinguished body of work.”

She was known as Angela Mortimer at the time of her Slam wins and in 1967 married John Barrett, a fellow British tennis player who became a distinguished tennis writer and broadcaster.

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