company.2   Mr. Brandt claims that these backcharges were fraudulent, and that they were filed to negate Crescent's demand for additional compensation on account of the extra work it performed.  At the conclusion of its work on the curtainwall in 1984, Crescent claimed that Northwestern owed it more than $4 million over and above the contract price for extra work allegedly performed during the job because of the design defects.  Northwestern refused to pay this amount.  Its refusal was based in part on the backcharges.

B. Litigation

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Crescent sought to collect payment by filing a mechanic's lien foreclosure action in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois.  That action still is pending.  Crescent also filed this action in the district court.  The secondstudents. In 2007, Harvard University named an annual Call of Service lecture in honor of Coles.

His work has been recognized with numerous awards, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971, a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1973 for his series of books Children of Crisis, a MacArthur Award in 1981, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998, and the National Humanities Medal in 2001. He later co-founded the magazine DoubleTake, which documented the lives of ordinary people with photographs, articles, essays, poetry, and short stories.  The magazine won several awards, including the 1998 National Magazine Award for Editorial Excellence in the category of General Excellence.

Many of Coles' works draw heavily on quoted conversations with ordinary people, as well as insights from