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...time they graduate, most Harvard students have become strangely desensitized to the outstanding accomplishments of their classmates. Three Nobel laureates? Heard it before. Three future presidents? That's nothing new. But three pro-football players? Now there's something to talk about...
...Nobel laureate Saul Bellow seems, as one of his comically understating fictional characters might put it, to be doing O.K. He is, for openers, the proud father of a baby daughter, Naomi-Rose, born Dec. 23 last year to Janis Freedman, 41, the author's fifth wife. Seated in his office at Boston University and sporting a jaunty blue paisley ascot and rumpled suit, Bellow talks animatedly about the new arrival: "I think that she's much keener on entering into some connection with her parents than the boys were. [Bellow has three grown sons, the eldest 56, from previous...
...Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, will be among this year's commencement speakers, Harvard's press office announced Wednesday...
...Nobel laureate Amartya K. Sen, one of the world's foremost welfare economists, has been chosen to deliver Harvard's commencement address on June 8, the University will announce today...
...Lamont University professor emeritus, is now Master of Trinity College in Britain. His work in developing nations on the impoverished won him the Nobel Prize for economics...