Word: nobelity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Samuelson award is named after Dr. Paul A. Samuelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics...
...write to congratulate Shai Sachs on his excellent call for divestment from Shell Oil (Opinion, Nov. 19). As Mr. Sachs pointed out, this November marks the third anniversary of the execution of nine human rights activists, including Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa, by the military dictatorship of Nigeria. This is only one of the dictatorship's many major human rights violations encouraged and supported by Shell, which provides more than 50 percent of the government's funding...
...Nobel Laureate Jose Saramago's most recent novel, Blindness, tells the horrifying story of an epidemic of blindness that spreads across the world, destroying families, social institutions and, eventually, every shred of recognizable civilization. The blindness begins when one man is suddenly and inexplicably struck with a strange, dazzling white blindness. Helplessly seeking to find an explanation and cure, the man infects everyone he meets. The blindness does not discern between good and evil--it infects a car thief as easily as a doctor, a prostitute as easily as a child...
...manage to elect anybody," Bech lectures the group, "the institution will dwindle to nothing." Who would care? Not Bech's current mistress, Martina, who dismisses the Forty as "a bunch of mostly New York City has-beens electing themselves." Updike has one surprise for his beleaguered hero: the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature. Anyone who thinks this stunning recognition will at long last make Bech at age 74 happy and fulfilled underestimates his funny and finely honed habits of suffering...
...Unfortunately, most of the Nobel Peace Prizewinners don't know about our tradition. Instead,they wake up to find some beautiful, blonde-hairedwoman in a white robe standing at the foot oftheir bed, singing to them with baked goods inhand. The prize winners think they have died andgone to heaven," Lidskog said