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Moynihan is the first non-economist to give the commencement speech since former Irish president Mary Robinson’s 1998 address. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya K. Sen and former Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin ’60 were the last three speakers selected...
...start over interviewing with other NIH researchers and, although he knew little about genetics, he impressed future Nobel Prize winning geneticist Marshall Nirenberg so much that Bernfield became a postdoctoral fellow in Niremberg?...
Then in 1999, nine months after President Clinton's impeachment, Sorkin's White House drama debuted on NBC. The aides were sexy, honorable and smart. The President was a folksy Nobel laureate with touches of F.D.R., Stephen Hawking, Will Rogers and the Buddha. The series was a hit, and in the glow of the characters' thousand-megawatt halos, TV's view of Washington--once typified by the evil FBI conspiracists on The X-Files--started to shift...
DIED. JAMES TOBIN, 84, Nobel-prizewinning economist and adviser to President John F. Kennedy; in New Haven, Conn. A Yale professor and promoter of the Keynesian theory, which advocates government intervention to regulate economic cycles, Tobin crafted the Kennedy tax cut that spurred the boom of the early 1960s. His Nobel-winning portfolio-selection theory--which posits that investors do not simply seek the highest yielding assets but vary them according to risk tolerance and other factors--changed conventional thinking on how Americans spend and invest money...
...artistic genius by putting Virgina Woolf on a psychiatric “couch.” The link between madness and genius has recently become a topic of national attention, especially as this year’s Oscar race focuses on A Beautiful Mind, the story of the schizophrenic, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash...