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When Teresa Heinz Kerry first established a $1.25 million awards program in memory of her late husband, Sen. John Heinz, she knew she didn't want the honors to be about mere excellence in the arts or the environment or technology. There had to be something else motivating the awardee's work: a nurturing instinct, a desire to empower, to coach and improve the lot of others.

Eleven years later, Heinz Kerry believes she has stuck to that rule.

"It's actually written into the awards," she said in a telephone interview last week. "Say you have a painter, who is the 'best' painter. To us, if that painter was a nasty person who treated everyone like scum, who didn't share, who didn't teach, well, he's not a Heinz Award painter, period."

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