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...What the U.S. and China do over the next decade," declared Energy Secretary Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize - winning physicist who is leading President Obama's push for a clean-energy economy, "will determine the fate of the world...
...awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his pursuit of the Sunshine Policy. Its fruits, it turned out, would not be particularly evident when Kim passed away on Tuesday. But he went to his death believing that engagement was the only option when it came to North Korea, and in the Oval Office in Washington now, a new President shares the same belief...
...fund that funneled more than $7 billion into Madoff's pockets, and J. Ezra Merkin, a major-league Manhattan investor who received a staggering $470 million in fees from Madoff. Merkin vacuumed up $2.4 billion from a veritable Who's Who of Jewish New York, including Holocaust survivor and Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel and Yeshiva University. "You were nothing more than a glorified mailbox," one of Merkin's investors fumed...
...National League for Democracy (NLD), Suu Kyi was sentenced to 18 months of house arrest on Tuesday after a bizarre case in which an American swam to her lakeside villa in commercial capital Rangoon. According to the junta's judiciary logic, the appearance of an uninvited guest at the Nobel Peace Prize laureate's home meant that she had contravened the terms of her previous house arrest. (Suu Kyi has been locked up for 14 years of the past two decades.) This month's verdict ensures that Suu Kyi, whose NLD overwhelmingly won 1990 elections that the junta ignored, will...
...price John Yettaw is about to pay for his unauthorized nighttime swim. On Aug. 11, Yettaw, 53, was sentenced to seven years in a Burmese prison for donning a pair of flippers and paddling across a lake to the Rangoon home of Suu Kyi, the prodemocracy dissident and Nobel laureate. (Suu Kyi received an additional 18 months of house arrest for violating the terms of her sentence by sheltering the Missouri native.) Seven years is a stiffer sentence than many had expected for Yettaw, who is said to suffer mental problems. Even worse: four of those years will consist...