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...Booker judges certainly felt so. Michael Portillo, who chaired the panel of judges and presented Adiga with a check for 50,000 pounds ($87,283) in prize money, told me that part of what thrilled him about The White Tiger is that it's as disturbing as it is entertaining. "This book changed me," Portillo said. "It changed my view of certain things, like what is the real India and what is the nature of poverty." Another of the judges, who asked not to be named, confided that it was "a very tricky choice" between Adiga's book...
...Frontrunners” premiered at South by Southwest, an annual film festival in Austin, Texas. Earlier this month, the movie was screened at The New Yorker Festival—a three-day event in New York featuring writers, artists, intellectuals, and performers—where Zisiadis sat on a panel about the film.“The tons of Facebook friend requests and private messages have been coming in, which is alternately joyful and disconcerting,” Zisiadis said, explaining that he hoped the movie would not become the way people define him—he didn?...
...panel including celebrity chef Alice Waters and the co-founder of Yale’s Sustainable Food Project encouraged audience members last night to participate in “A Delicious Revolution” in anticipation of Harvard’s upcoming “Sustainability Week.” The Humanities Center at Harvard hosted the discussion, which humanities professor and director of the Center Homi K. Bhabha moderated. The panel explored the role food plays in people’s lives as nourishment, as an expression of care, and as social and economic therapy. Before the dialogue began...
...challenges in the past. “In the 20th century, we saw a Republican Roosevelt and a Democratic Roosevelt preside over periods when capitalism was saved from itself,” Summers said. “This is our challenge today.” CAPITALISM IN DANGER?A panel moderated by Business School professor Michael E. Porter further explored the difficulties currently facing capitalism.Thierry J. Breton, the former French minister of economy, finance, and industry, emphasized the importance of understanding why there exists widespread discontent with capitalism.“We want a better life for ourselves...
...three-judge panel took less than five minutes to read the guilty verdict and announce that Khem Ngon, 58, Loch Mao, 56, and Puth Lim, 57, would spend the next 20 years in prison after being found guilty of murder, kidnapping and membership in the outlawed Khmer Rouge communist movement. Khmer Rouge leaders were responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.5 million people during Cambodia's infamous "killing fields" period in the 1970s...