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...model of globalization on offer at the WEF. At the opening press conference of the Public Eye on Davos, an umbrella NGO group, those on the platform were asked who the intellectual leaders and heroes of the anti-globalization movement might be. Apart from praise for the writings of Nobel laureate and former chief economist of the World Bank Joe Stiglitz, there was an embarrassing silence. But the critics of the globalization won?t get far until they can make a case for their own way of looking at the world...
DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, Spanish writer, bon vivant and 1989 Nobel laureate in literature; in Madrid. The flamboyant author pioneered "tremendismo," a raw writing style that Spain would claim as its own, though Cela's first work, The Family of Pascal Duarte (1942), was considered so violent it was banned in his country and first published in Argentina. The novel eventually became one of the best-read works of Spanish fiction since Cervantes' Don Quixote...
...Voice of Passion). Her emotional renditions of the romantic Latin style of music called bolero sent her popularity skyrocketing: three compilation CDs of her work have been released in the past five years. DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, prolific, provocative author whose challenging prose won him the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature; in Madrid. One of Spain's greatest intellects of the 20th century, Cela gained entrance into the Royal Spanish Academy at 42 and was named marquess of Iria Flavia (his home village) by King Juan Carlos in 1996. DIED. GREGORIO FUENTES, 104, fishing-boat captain who inspired Ernest...
...Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature, has championed "The Last Summer of Reason," writing a foreword for the new book. "We're really in a season of fundamentalist insanity in many religions," Soyinka told us. "There's a real escalation of intolerance, of the will to constrict the mind. Many people outside have been unaware of the enormity of the killings that have been taking place in Algeria, for instance, in the name of religious purity. So a book like Djaout's, which is a very pointed allegory, is something that I think is required...
...believe that Harvard’s academic aims are compromised because cashiers at the Greenhouse make less than $10.83 per hour. Please. I suppose, then, that once Harvard’s least skilled and (forgive my frankness) most replaceable workers get raises, we’ll see Nobel Prizes and research grants rain down like manna from heaven...