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Your gratuitous insults of this distinguished scientist (1996 Commencement Speaker Dr. Harold E. Varmus) were unfair as well as undeserved. As you must have known, but apparently chose to ignore, Varmus is a past winner of the Lasker Prize, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1989. As the Post put it so well, he is an internationally recognized expert on the genetics of cancer. In recognition of his research abilities, as well as his ability to lead and administer, President Clinton chose him to direct the National Institues of Health...
...Nobel Prize for literature merely confirmed what her readers and admirers had known for more than two decades: Toni Morrison is a major American writer. But because she is an African-American woman, her importance to and impact on her times transcend the literary. Her example, both in her powerful novels and in her strong, imposing personality, has inspired a generation of black artists and produced seismic effects on publishing...
Because Morrison is a writer, her influence will outlive her. As she said in her Nobel acceptance speech in Stockholm: "We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives...
...well be refined to the point where it can be tested in real-world experiments. Already his work on a related idea known as topological quantum field theory, which allows physicists to find connections between seemingly unrelated equations, has earned Witten the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize. That's no small feat, considering that mathematicians usually look down on the dabblings of mere physicists...
YASSER ARAFAT Forget handshakes at White House. "Peace of the brave" meets post-Nobel realpolitik...