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...Nobel Peace Prize winner and former head of state, a former press secretary to Barbara Bush and a former mayor join five others as fellows at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this spring, IOP officials announced Monday...
Herschbach, who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in chemistry, said he was "surprised and flattered but also embarrassed" by this most recent honor...
Corey, a 1990 winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, was more critical of the award and what it meant than his two colleagues...
...Morrison laughs at a subsequent event that has, in terms of mass recognition, affected her life more dramatically than did the Nobel Prize: the selection, in December 1996, of her 1977 novel Song of Solomon as the second offering of the Oprah Book Club. "I'd never heard of such a thing," she says, "and when someone called, all excited, with the news, all I could think was, 'Who's going to buy a book because of Oprah?'" The answer came fairly quickly and astonishingly. "A million copies of that book sold," she says, again shaking her head. "And sales...
...comfortable with being recognized in that way. She faces her upcoming publicity tour for Paradise with a certain dread, although she feels she owes the effort to her publisher, which has a large investment in the novel. "I get cranky and depressed on the road," she says. As a Nobel laureate, she has a little more cachet than struggling first novelists, so she has been able to set certain limits on how she is displayed. "I've refused to do the morning TV shows. I just can't handle those two-to-five-minute snippets. I'm not good...