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...though Ríos Montt campaigns on law and order, violent crime and political murders have soared under the frg. Ríos Montt is helped by the blandness of the oligarchy-supported frontrunner, agriculture baron Oscar Berger, whose proposals include using Guatemala's Nobel Peace laureate, Maya Indian Rigoberta Menchú, to promote tourism. Still, if Ríos Montt loses, he also loses immunity from prosecution, which has raised fears that he might resort to desperation tactics to win. Ríos Montt dismisses these. The genocide case "is just a partisan political complaint with no proof...
...criminals and finally relegated to a life of cringing abjection on the outermost margins of the new South Africa. The work was haunted by disillusion and pessimism, and nobody was particularly surprised when Coetzee quietly departed for Australia in 2002, leaving some of us mulling a question: Is his Nobel really a triumph for the Rainbow Nation, as our newspapers claim? There's no point looking to Coetzee for clarification. He failed to show up for both of his Booker ceremonies, and who knows whether he will show up in Stockholm on Dec. 10 to collect his Nobel. When...
...Nobel Prize in Literature was received by John Trinkaus of the Zicklin School in New York City for his collection and analysis of data on the timely and pressing topic of pet peeves...
...Nobel winners will have the chance to explain their research at greater length to those interested in free public lectures hosted this Saturday...
Finkelstein has called Elie Wiesel—whose lifelong devotion to peace and reconciliation earned him the Nobel Peace Prize—a “clown” (See Irish Times, July 1, 2003). He accused Wiesel of lying because Wiesel said that when he was 18 years old “I read The Critique of Pure Reason…in Yiddish.” Here is Finkelstein’s “gotcha” accusation: “The Critique of Pure Reason was never translated into Yiddish” (The Guardian, July...