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...stuffed shirt," he once remarked, "I want to punch it." Mauldin won his second Pulitzer for a cartoon in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1959, after the Soviets imprisoned writer Boris Pasternak; it shows one prisoner in ball and chain saying to another, "I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime?" Mauldin moved to the Chicago Sun-Times in 1962 and stayed there 30 years. Skillful as he was with captions, sometimes his art required no words at all. After the assassination of J.F.K., Mauldin portrayed the statue of Lincoln in his Memorial, bent over, head...
...Nobel laureates have signed a statement warning that a war with Iraq would harm U.S. security and standing...
...More startling, perhaps, a government watchdog's report last Thursday indicated that the landmark summit between Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung may have been bought and paid for by Seoul. President Kim's crowning achievement?his 2000 Nobel Peace Prize?may thus be tainted by charges of checkbook diplomacy. After a three-month investigation, the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea declared that, just a week before the summit, $332 million was transferred from the state-run Korea Development Bank into Hyundai Merchant Marine, a subsidiary of the Hyundai conglomerate, which has connections...
...world-class” institution. Oxford is a primarily government-funded institution, and government funding has fallen dramatically since the 1980s. In short, times are hard, and it’s no wonder that our research ratings are slipping and we haven’t won a Nobel Prize in decades. Also, whilst Harvard possesses an endowment that would be the envy of an elephant, Oxford’s is the equivalent of a small field mouse. For some demented reason we still seem to be under the illusion that education is a right, not a privilege, and therefore never...
...Newport Beach, California. Mauldin's unconquerable GIs Willie and Joe inspired and immortalized the courage of American soldiers in World War II. After the war, Mauldin became a syndicated cartoonist and won his second Pulitzer for depicting Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak saying to another prisoner: "I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime...