Word: nobels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney will take the next two semesters off from the University, and some in the community speculate that he may depart for good after the 1998 academic year...
Heaney was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature making him the first Harvard professor ever to be awarded the literature prize. The prestigious prize pays $1 million...
...direct impacts of the pipeline, Texaco's investment will provide a large source of income to the SLORC, money that the regime desperately needs to sustain its bloated military. Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese woman who has led the pro-democracy movement and won the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, has explicitly called for an end to foreign investment in Burma until a democratic government is installed. Democratic elections were held in 1990, in which Suu Kyi's party won 82 percent of the parliamentary seats, but the military ignored them...
...Solomon between 1987 and Oprah's selection last month, immediately churned out 730,000 more. On the day that Morrison appeared on air with Oprah, Barnes & Noble sold 16,070 copies of Song of Solomon nationwide. Oprah provided a bigger boost for Morrison's commercial clout than the 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...issue uniting Bishop Belo and Ramos-Horta is that both want to see the backs of their Indonesian colonizers. The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to both is a vindication of their courageous struggle for peace and justice. TOM HYLAND, Director East Timor-Ireland Solidarity Campaign Dublin...