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...RESIGNED. BISHOP CARLOS BELO, 54, outspoken East Timorese Bishop for the Vatican and spiritual leader of his country's largely Roman Catholic population; claiming ill-health and the need for "a long period of recuperation"; in Dili, East Timor. A staunch defender of human rights, Belo, who won the Nobel Peace Prize with Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta in 1996 for their efforts to bring peace to the region, is revered for standing up to the Indonesian military during its harsh rule of East Timor before the territory's in-dependence...
...APPOINTED. HENRY KISSINGER, 79, Nobel Prize-winning former U.S. secretary of state who served under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford; by President George W. Bush to head a new independent commission to investigate intelligence and security failures over the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; in Washington D.C. While Kissinger was Bush's first choice, critics on both sides of the Atlantic have jumped on the appointment, pointing to Kissinger's penchant for secrecy during the Nixon era. Kissinger insists: "We are under no restrictions, and we will accept no restrictions...
Harvard: In search of more space to expand our Nobel-winning academic juggernaut...
...national treasure,” a Nobel laureate once told him. “Don’t screw...
Instead of catering to the individual demands of 30,000 staff members—including “more Nobel laureates than most countries”—Gerstner flouted tradition and made important decisions himself in his first 100 days...