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...Nobel laureate says he fondly remembers "a sense of misrule" among members of the generation before...

Author: By Angela C. Walch, | Title: Memories Kindle Halloween Spirits | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

...deeply, as when we heed the words of Jesus, Luther or Freud, all of whom took up the great truths and agonizing questions set out by Hebrew scribes sometime between the 10th and 4th centuries before the advent of Christianity (and inspired by God, traditionalists believe, centuries earlier). Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once told author David Rosenberg, "I am still learning the art of writing from the book of Genesis." The words could have been uttered by Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky or Mario Puzo. Dozens died in Israel last month over boundaries Genesis set forth; yet the same tales appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GENESIS RECONSIDERED | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...elected Prime Minister again as head of Israel's Labor Party in 1992. From that time until his death, Rabin pursued peace with several Arab nations. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts...

Author: By Jessie M. Amberg, | Title: A Year After Death, Rabin Is Remembered | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

...seller typically has far more information than the buyer. That's why states have lemon laws. Such gaps in information lie at the heart of the work for which James Mirrlees of Britain's Cambridge University, and formerly Oxford, and William Vickrey of Columbia University shared this year's Nobel for Economics. By studying the "asymmetric information" that characterizes many markets, the two men, who have never met, demolished the classic economic assumption that all parties to a deal have equal knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOBEL PRIZES: FROM BUCKYBALLS TO USED CARS | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

PRESIDENT SUHARTO OF INDONESIA Nobel is given to key dissidents of East Timor, which he annexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 21, 1996 | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

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