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...could not locate in the text a single word about the most famous electrician in history, Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa, his role in dismantling the Soviet empire, and the first noncommunist Prime Minister in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, Tadeusz Mazowiecki. It all started here in Poland. That is what I am teaching my kids, and that is what I expected to find in my favorite weekly. Christopher Komornicki, WOJTOWICE, POLAND...
...taking a furlough," adding that faculty salaries already lag some "$25,000 behind our peers." In the past, even with this gap, UC Berkeley has been able to entice top faculty to leave Harvard and Yale for the Bay Area. The UC system as a whole has won 55 Nobel Prizes...
...could not locate in the text a single word about the most famous electrician in history, Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa, and his role in dismantling the Soviet empire, or about the first noncommunist Prime Minister in Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe, Tadeusz Mazowiecki. It all started here - in Poland. That is what I am teaching my kids, and that is what I expected to find in my favorite weekly. Christopher Komornicki, Wojtowice, Poland...
Tough talk from Anna Schwartz, a financial sage who has seen it all, having lived through the crash of 1929 and co-authored with Nobel laureate Milton Friedman the highly acclaimed financial bible A Monetary History of the United States (Princeton University Press...
...After huddling with Zelaya, Clinton announced a new plan that reaches back to an old one: Costa Rican President Oscar Arias - who during his first presidency won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for helping end Central America's rash of bloody civil wars - will now mediate the Honduran standoff. Clinton, who said both Zelaya and provisional Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti had agreed to Arias' involvement, called on "all parties to refrain from acts of violence" - on Sunday a teenaged Zelaya backer was shot dead by soldiers - "and to seek a peaceful, constitutional and lasting solution." Zelaya and Micheletti say they...