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King, prime ministers, writers, ambassadors and Nobel laureates have all spoken a Harvard's Commencement. This year, outgoing President Derek C. Bok will be joining this procession...
Come 1988, Harvard hosted Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez at the Commencement exercises. Arias won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his successful efforts at diplomacy in Central America...
...days after the latest cyclone ravaged Bangladesh, Mother Teresa arrived from Calcutta with 1,600 lbs. of relief supplies. It took a day for officials in Dhaka to decide how to deal with her. Since the Nobel Peace laureate had flown in on a commercial flight, some officials argued that the materials needed to go through customs. About a month earlier, when Iraqi Kurds began fleeing en masse from Saddam Hussein's soldiers, the Iranian army struggled to cope with thousands of dying children. They were treated with antibiotics instead of rehydration salts, a more effective means of staving...
Baltimore, the Nobel laureate and since 1990 president of Rockefeller University, has apologized, after a fashion, for his role in the alleged fraud, and many feel that the matter should be left to rest. He didn't, after all, falsify the data himself; he merely signed on as senior scientist to Imanishi-Kari's now discredited findings. But when a young postdoctoral fellow named Margot O'Toole tried to blow the whistle, Baltimore pooh-poohed O'Toole's evidence and stood by while she lost her job. Then, as the feds closed in, he launched a bold, misguided defense...
...believed the bogus "findings" and altered their views accordingly or wasted time trying to follow the false lead in their labs. Then there is the inevitable damage from the exposure of the lie: millions of people, reading of the scandal, must have felt their deepest cynicism confirmed. If a Nobel laureate in science could sink to the moral level of Milli Vanilli or a White House spin doctor, then maybe the deconstructionists are right and there is no truth anywhere, only self-interest masked as objective fact...