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...Omega Minor, his sprawling, provocative, nuclear nightmare of a novel. After appearing in the Netherlands and his native Belgium in 2004, and Germany in 2006, the book spent months on best-seller lists and won a periodic table of European literary awards. Verhaeghen gained further notoriety by declining his prize money to protest the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq...
...Verhaeghen slaved at the translation - "250,000 frigging words!" - prize money kept rolling in. "I was working on a sentence at the war's end, about how the former Nazi camps were being filled with prisoners by the Soviets," he recalls. "It struck me that it was happening all over again, in America - the limits on freedom of speech, the first evidence of torture." As a U.S. resident, Verhaeghen would have to pay American income tax on his prize money, then about $25,000. "I could imagine it would go for schools and hospitals, but in reality much...
...economy as it currently functions does need changing, but that’s not the same as saying economists need to change their tune,” Kolstad said. Kolstad, a lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, discussed climate change yesterday afternoon at the Kennedy School of Government using a colorful PowerPoint presentation complete with graphs and charts. Kolstad began by identifying several common criticisms of economics in relation to climate change, including consumption, an economist’s social values, and anti-environmental cost-benefit analysis...
...University of Massachusetts at Boston College of Management, presented to about 30 students at the workshop. It was the first such event organized by the international relations student group this year. Najam, who will represent the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change when the organization receives its Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Oslo, Norway on Dec. 10, said it is dangerous to separate international development and environmental preservation, which he said is a mistake made by many people today. “Our world is a third world country,” he added, pointing to the world?...
...knew that sneaking a plastic bottle of water up to the room—40 million of the little terrors are thrown out everyday!—could feel so good?I’m pretty sure that a former Dunster House resident and Oscar winner (okay, Nobel Peace Prize winner, too) is to blame for the fact that this green monster has become my fourth roommate. I hold the former Vice President and his nifty PowerPoint presentation responsible for it all: for the pile of recycling-bound newspapers that now towers over my desk; for a national college magazine...