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...Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, one of the world's foremost welfare economists, will deliver Harvard's commencement address this June, sources confirmed today...

Author: By Christine M. Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Amartya Sen Selected as Commencement Speaker | 4/18/2000 | See Source »

...former Lamont University Professor, is now Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. His work on the impoverished in developing nations won him the Nobel Prize for Economics...

Author: By Christine M. Lin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Amartya Sen Selected as Commencement Speaker | 4/18/2000 | See Source »

...much for the quaint and condescending label Anglo-Indian. Would anyone tag Nigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka an Anglo-African? Mishra, Jha, Sharma and other promising Indian-rooted writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, whose Interpreter of Maladies recently won the New Yorker Book Award for best debut, work in an age when East and West are cross-pollinating at a dizzying pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Subcontinentals | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...Nobel Laureate Seamus J. Heaney recited his own poetry and read excerpts from his new best-selling translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf yesterday evening in Lowell Lecture Hall...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Heaney Wows Crowd With Poems, Anecdotes | 4/7/2000 | See Source »

...minor curiosity of art history: Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), a leading French Impressionist painter, friend and mentor to Cezanne and Gauguin, was born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas. An item of literary history: Derek Walcott (1930- ), who would grow up to win the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Islands in The Stream | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

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