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Wole Soyinka, the 1986 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, read selected passages from his books and poems yesterday in a lecture sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department...
Soyinka, the first African Nobel laureate in literature, delivered his lecture, "Creative Barriers," to a crowd of about 150 in Emerson Hall...
...many people can name a single one of last year's Nobel Prize winners? In America we define status by financial success. It's much easier to sacrifice family for career, and our culture reinforces that...
Perhaps someone will rise to history's challenge in Madrid, propose a bold new plan, show willingness to compromise, and the Nobel committee can start writing invitations to Shamir, Assad and Arafat. At this point, however, we couldn't even know whether Assad would shake Shamir's hand at the award ceremony...
Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said last week that they could not be sure that Aung San Suu Kyi even knew she had been awarded the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. But if she has access to a shortwave radio, she would have learned the news from overseas without delay. As the head of an opposition using "nonviolent means to resist a regime characterized by brutality," read the Nobel citation, Aung San Suu Kyi has become "one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades." Within hours much of Burma -- which the ruling junta...