Word: nobels
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...GREATEST OBSTACLE TO MIDDLE East peace may not be conflict among nations but within them. Witness the assassinations of Egypt's Anwar Sadat and now Israel's Yitzhak Rabin. Both men were internationally praised for their efforts to institute lasting peace. Both men won Nobel Peace Prizes alongside former enemies. And now both men have died at the hands of their own countrymen. DAVID R. FINE Camp Hill, Pennsylvania Via E-mail...
...Friday, November 10, 1995, the world lost another great leader--Ken Saro-Wiwa; a leading human rights activist and environmental crusader for the Ogoni people of southeastern Nigeria. He was awarded the 1995 Goldman Environmental Prize and was also nominated for the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize...
South African President Nelson Mandela named fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu to head a commission that will investigate political crimes committed under apartheid. "Tutu is a very good choice for the post," reports TIME's Peter Hawthorne from Cape Town. "He has shown himself to be on the side of truth, and shouldn't hold any longstanding bitterness during the hearings the commission will hold. He's also not afraid of controversy, even if that includes going against Mandela himself. For example, Tutu was critical of Mandela's handling of the situation in Nigeria, when the playwright...
...weeks ago, the government of Nigeria demonstrated its contempt for justice by hanging Ken Saro-Wiwa, a nominee for the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, and eight other environmental activists. Hoping to silence one of its most eloquent critic, the Nigerian military junta executed Saro-Wiwa after a widely-condemned show trial for his alleged role in the deaths of four tribal chiefs killed during a riot. Harvard should divest itself of interests in companies that continue to do business in Nigeria despite its oppressive regime...
Ptashne demonstrated his skill with the violin at a party he hosted two weeks ago in his Cambridge home to honor Jannic Nusslein-Vol-hard and Eric Wieschaus. The two German researchers will receive this year's Nobel Prize in medicine in December for their research on the development of fruit-fly embryos...