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...late at night when he's drunk too much, "You'll do." His friend Maude (Charlotte Rampling) has a practiced irony in her smile; life has taught her to walk gracefully among land mines and, en route, to plant a few. The smile of journalist Merton Densher (Linus Roache) carries a soft ruefulness, something that understands failure. And in the smile of Maude's niece Kate Croy (Helena Bonham Carter), there is a sly gravity, a love of intrigue for revenge or profit. Kate is up to some serious mischief...
ECONOMICS: Robert Merton and Myron Scholes. The $1 million prize the two academics will share may seem like small change compared with the $148 billion stock-options market their work helped create. Merton, of Harvard, and Scholes, of Stanford, were honored last week for helping develop and refine in the 1970s the breakthrough formula commonly used today to price stock options and other so-called derivatives. Their financial acumen had earlier been rewarded (presumably quite amply) through their partnership in a successful Connecticut-based hedge fund...
...receipt of the prize in economics by Harvard's Baker Professor of Administration Robert C. Merton last week focused campuswide attention on the prize...
...public] sees the winners [as] being rewarded for genius," Mendelsohn said. "In the scientific community, [Nobel laureates] are regarded as peers who were particularly clever." A NOBLE FACULTY The most recent 10 laureates from Harvard University Name Prize and Year Robert C. Merton Economic Sciences, 1997 Elias J. Corey Chemistry, 1990 Ramsey F. Norman Physics, 1989 Dudley R. Herschbach Chemistry, 1986 Nicolaas Bloembergen Physics, 1981 David H. Hubel Physiology/Medicine, 1981 Baruj Benacerraf Physiology/Medicine, 1980 Steven Weinberg Physics, 1979 William N. Lipscomb Chemistry, 1976 Wassily Leontief Economic Sciences, 1973 The Official Web site for the Nobel prizes
...Princeton University economics professor Avainash Dixit, yesterday, concerning Baker professor of Administration Robert C. Merton's and Stanford University economics professor Myron S. Scholes' work on pricing derivatives, for which they just received the Noble Prize...