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Gordimer, who won the Nobel Prize for literature 1991, has also been a crusader in her country...
...apartment, on a couch that's on the same scale as the South African Nobel literature laureate, the authority and energy in her words and manner dispel any illusions of weakness...
Like so many talented young taiwanese, Yuan T. Lee came to the U.S. to study, and then to stay. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He climbed the academic ladder. Eventually, he won a Nobel Prize. Then earlier this year, at the peak of his career, the 57-year- old chemist made a sweeping U-turn and headed back home to run Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica, a burgeoning collection of 21 research institutes...
...final analysis, Yale's service to Harvard is to provide us with a neatly packaged, trendy alternative subculture. By praising Yale, we rise above the petty comparisons of Nobel laureates and U.S. presidents. We become another incarnation of the Harvard elite. And we have more fun barking "Boola Boola" than by singing "Ten Thousand...
...compared the authors theories to those of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who, three decades ago, advocated the sterilization of humans with...