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...recall is that he really wasn't very tough; he was [sympathetic]," says Glashow, who would go on to claim the Nobel Prize in physics. "He was a perfectly lovable gentlemen...
...Begin and Yitzhak Shamir and U.S. Presidents like Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Against heavy odds, they all surprised the world by opening up new avenues to peace despite their political-campaign rhetoric. Even Yasser Arafat proved that one can work toward peace under proper circumstances and receive a Nobel Peace Prize. Instead of being sarcastic about it, let us congratulate the people of Israel who elected Netanyahu, a young, energetic, intelligent sound-bite master, politically seasoned (in the American way). VALIYAVEETIL T. SAMUEL Grambling, Louisiana...
...Wheel of Fortune joke: "I'd like to buy a vowel!" This was tired after just four days. And the formatted topical comedy, as it turns out, is too predictable. A joke about Julie Andrews declining a Tony nomination ended with Rosie claiming she'd turn down the Nobel Peace Prize. That's the sort of one-liner that people who have never even appeared on Star Search have been using around the water cooler for weeks (not to mention the fact that it was the conceit of a humor column in the New Yorker almost a month...
...Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice," said Varmus, a who is a Nobel laureate...
...speech to the annual meeting of the Alumni Association on the afternoon of Commencement Day, Varmus addressed the discontent on campus surrounding his selection as Commencement speaker. He discussed the widespread sentiment within the senior class that his Nobel-winning discovery of cancer-causing oncogenes did not make him "exciting" enough to speak at a Harvard graduation...