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David Trimble?s Nobel Peace Prize may have been a little premature. Northern Ireland?s political leaders went back to the drawing board Friday, with the decision to keep talking being about the only thing they?re able to agree on. Trimble and his Ulster Unionist Party brought last year?s peace agreement crashing to a standstill Thursday by refusing to take their seats in the new Northern Ireland assembly, insisting they would boycott until the IRA begins to disarm. Having failed to navigate a way through the impasse, Britain picked up the phone overnight and summoned former U.S. senator...
...former literary editor of a Jesuit magazine. Samway got a copy of the manuscript in 1975 but rediscovered it only earlier this year while cleaning out his files. "It seems strange that no one published it," Samway said. "But it wasn't until 1950 when he won the Nobel Prize that [Faulkner's] star rose." One wonders if the editors fared as well...
Several years thereafter, he was appointed to a prestigious endowed chair and later won the John Bates Clark medal. In the past, recipients of the medal have often gone on to win the Nobel Prize...
...piece of work. But its publication will do no harm to his reputation. In fact, the appearance of this book underscores Hemingway's courage as a writer. By the time he began working on this manuscript, he had received all the honors--a Pulitzer Prize in 1953, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954--and all the fame that any author could desire. But his body had been battered by injuries and his brain by alcohol, and the "one true sentence" that he said would get his writing humming became harder and harder to find. Still, he persisted...
...American G.I. is honored, then the people who hold the century's most influential position should be as well. I refer to the humble teacher. This century has seen exponential growth in knowledge, science and education. The greatest crusade has been against ignorance and illiteracy. There is no Nobel Prize for Education, yet were it not for teachers and the growth of universal education, this world would be much less advanced. R. LINKIEWICZ Dolans Bay, Australia...