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Other possible roads to sex-symboldom include, but are not limited to: win a Nobel Prize and get known as hottest genius ever; get drafted by a professional sports team and have your agent get you on many magazine covers; enter the porn industry and well, you know. Basically, in order to be universally regarded as a sex symbol, you need to be famous. So that needs to be mission...
Harvard professor Amartya Sen may have won a Nobel Prize for his work in welfare economics, but his son addresses the issue of social injustice in a different manner—he raps about it. Kabir Sen, a Wesleyan University graduate and son of Lamont University Professor Sen, will release his third album, “Peaceful Solutions,” on April 25. According to the rapper’s manager, Howard Turkenkopf, Kabir’s first two albums were well received. “His stuff has a lot more in terms of intelligence and a sort...
...years. The three previous Harvard recipients were honored in the fields of bioscience and medicine between 1990 and 1994, when the award was given to 12 scholars a year. Payne was first notified of her nomination once she won, making the Planck award different from the Nobel Prize, for which contenders often promote themselves as candidates. “The first I heard about [my nomination],” she said, “was when they called me up to ask if I would accept...
...past year or over a lifetime. Past recipients include Robert Frost, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Adrienne Rich, and Mary Oliver. “The Golden Rose is very good luck,” said Der-Hovanessian, noting that several recipients have gone on to win Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Ferlinghetti read first from his older and better recognized works, including the 1958 collection, “A Coney Island of the Mind.” Midway through the performance, he began a multimedia presentation of post-Sept. 11 poetry: the American natural anthem and bird calls played beneath and between...
...Monday, former Governor George Ryan, 72,is the third Illinois goverrnor since 1973 to be convicted of federal crimes. Ryan, who won worldwide acclaim and even a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for clearing out the state's Death Row and putting a moratorium on executions, was found guilty of running campaigns - and government offices - like a personal piggy bank to enrich himself, family and friends. The verdict, convicting Ryan on 18 counts ranging from racketeering to mail fraud, came after five months of testimony from more than 100 witnesses, including Ryan's previously convicted former chief of staff, some...