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Anybody in there? It's me--Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter...
...what actually happens when Updike is sitting across from you? He turns out to be amiable and gallant, as sociable as you could ask the winner of every literary prize short of the Nobel to be. If this is all just a mellow charade, it's certainly one that he has mastered, just as in this brief novel of deep feeling, his 20th, he has mastered the voice of a woman struggling to convey the things that inspired her. "This is my most 'de-masculinized' work," he says. "The willingness to relive a life--I can only imagine two women...
...think that will be a political liability. Libby is from a family wealthy enough to allow him to say that, for him, the money needed to fund a campaign is “not really a concern.” Libby is from a family drenched in achievement: Two Nobel Prizes in the space of just a few generations testify to that. “The family has always tried to be the best at what it does,” he says. “So if I was going to go into politics, of course...
...would have been highly inappropriate for Harvard to honor Paulin by allowing him to deliver the Morris Gray Lecture, which has been previously given by such Nobel Prize-winning luminaries as Seamus Heaney and Anthony Hecht. To let Paulin give a distinguished lecture at this University after expressing such an offensive and violent message would inevitably legitimize his hateful rhetoric...
Prioritizing “universal human values” and international cooperation should be the focus of political leaders today, said Gorbachev, who won the Nobel Peace Prize...