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...first year in Japan, the open, young American met, by chance, both Yasunari Kawabata, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great Zen scholar, D.T. Suzuki; and a little afterward he found himself on a set where Akira Kurosawa was directing Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel. Very soon, every foreigner who landed in Tokyo?Somerset Maugham, Tom Wolfe, Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson?was calling on him to be shown around. Richie's shrewd, but forgiving, fascination with human quirks there gives us Truman Capote buying an "imitation geisha wig" and Kurosawa taking in a Fellini film without...
...Supreme Court has already received briefs regarding the case from the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, 48 different countries, and more than 12 Nobel Prize Winners. However, media coverage of Roper v. Simmons, and public awareness of the issue at stake, is virtually nowhere to be found. This case has the potential to change the way America’s judicial system is perceived in the international community. But while the world turns to look at us, we seem to be turning away...
Past Commencement speakers have included United Nations Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan, Nobel laureate Amartya K. Sen, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Vice President Al Gore...
...Green Nobelist "10 Questions for Wangari Maathai" [Oct. 18], Time's interview with the founder of the tree-planting Green Belt Movement and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, deeply touched me as well as many other environmentalists. The big issue is that while Africa's ostensible leaders are thinking only about politics, Maathai has shown that she has a new idea for a road map to peace in Africa - sustainable management of natural resources. People like Maathai need to be among the decision makers who set policy for the African Union. Her new approach...
Harvard’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet-in-Residence is one of the most stellar attractions the University counts among its rich wellspring of resources. The 1995 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature doesn’t restrain himself to the poetry for which he won the prize; Heaney counts a definitive translation of Beowulf, over ten collections of radiant verse and several collections of critical essays among his impressively voluminous works...