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...that sense of national identity that had been growing since the war and to lead rapidly to a Palestinian state. But for Jews and Arabs alike, Oslo and its aftermath proved to be new disappointments. Israel sped ahead with yet more settlements in the West Bank, and Arafat, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, secretly signed off on terrorism directed against the Israelis...
...sheer awesomeness of the Professor? Surely this rating was not referring to the difficulty of grading in the class. I figured that maybe a 1.0 difficulty rating would mean the average student was awarded an A, while a 5.0 rating would mean the average student was awarded a Nobel Prize. I was glad to see that most of the classes in the CUE had a difficulty rating that fell somewhere in between the two extremes, so I told my parents to expect plenty of A+++’s and maybe a couple of Hoopes Prizes. As you already know...
...HEARD of LCD television in the late 1960s, when Nobel-prizewinning French physicist Pierre-Billes de Gennes began studying liquid crystals, a form with properties of both liquids and solids, now used to create bright, clear displays for TVs and other devices. On awarding the 1991 Nobel to De Gennes, the jury called him the "Isaac Newton of our time." He was 74 and died of unknown causes...
...other words, you would want someone like Al Gore-the improbably charismatic, Academy Award-winning, Nobel Prize-nominated environmental prophet with an army of followers and huge reserves of political and cultural capital at his command. There's only one problem. The former Vice President just doesn't seem interested. He says he has "fallen out of love with politics," which is shorthand for both his general disgust with the process and the pain he still feels over the hard blow of the 2000 election, when he became only the fourth man in U.S. history to win the popular vote...
...Washington home of his onetime chief of staff, Peter Knight. (Someone handed out buttons that said Al Gore Reunion 2007, but it was just a social event; Gore didn't attend.) They cite October as a good time for him to get in, since that's when the Nobel Committee announces its Peace Prize. Finally, they point to The Assault on Reason, the sort of book that could be a talisman of intent, since it takes aim at George W. Bush from multiple directions, diagnoses what's wrong with our democracy and offers ideas for curing it. Why else would...