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...There are three other former Oxy Pete workers among the staff. All would be better off today - and probably playing the course as opposed to working it - had Occidental stuck to its pension system. Still, Shively says he is not mad at his former employer. And so far, he hasn't found working in retirement to be too bad. Let's hope we all think the same...
...main reasons the prize's founder Alfred Nobel stipulated for awarding it. "Either the person must have embraced the cause of peace and obtained results towards obtaining it," Valode recalls. "Or the person had to have demonstrated a commitment to peace through a lifetime of work for it. Obama hasn't had enough time to accomplish much in general, and hasn't even tried much with peace...
...criticism of Obama. To some of his former admirers on the left, McCain's gracious election-night concession speech seemed to signal the return of the true McCain: a buoyant dealmaker more interested in crossing the aisle than in scoring partisan points. But McCain's campaign edge hasn't gone away. "A lot of people, including me," says Mark McKinnon, a longtime adviser, "thought he might be the Republican building bridges to the Obama Administration. But he's been more like the guy blowing up the bridges." (See 10 health-care-reform...
...past is any guide, the Nobel won't make Müller a household name in America - it certainly hasn't done much for Elfriede Jelinek (who won in 2004) or Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio (2008). That may simply be because there is little in the lives of most Americans that resonates with what Müller has gone through. Then again, for Müller, life under tyranny seems to be in part a figure for the existential terror of life anywhere. It is a world of secrecy and universal suspicion. Everyone suspects everyone of betrayal...
...history of being confused with Rowling's fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And the Folklore and Mythology concentration probably only has that one thing going for them. At Harvard, we have our own algorithmic sorting hat known as Housing Day. And when you think about it, who hasn't told their friends back home that their dining hall looks like the "Great Hall"? Back in 2008, Harvard Square was temporarily renamed "Hogwarts Square," when Rowling was invited as Class Day speaker. And as FlyBy understands it, far more college essays are actually about Harry Potter than Dostoyevsky...