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...choice of Steven Chu, the unanimously confirmed U.S. secretary of energy, to deliver this year’s Commencement address is both timely and prudent. A Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a nuanced understanding of the power of scientific innovation, Steven Chu possesses the serious expertise necessary to inspire both current policymakers in the White House and future leaders in Harvard’s graduating classes...
...Perestroika” on April 4, 2009. “Angels in America” was originally two plays written within two years of each other in 1991 and 1992, both winning Tony Awards for Best Play in 1993 and 1994, respectively, as well as a Pulitzer Prize. Over a total of six hours, the work follows the shifts, declines, and evolution of the relationships of two couples, one gay and one straight, in New York City in the 1980s.Despite the difficulty of undertaking such an epic production, both Wright and Hirschenberg knew that they wanted to see both parts...
...Nobel prize in 1997 for his work on cooling atoms with laser lights, comes from a family of academic high achievers—both parents attended M.I.T. and his brothers hold degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law School...
Several decades and a Nobel prize later, Chu will finally receive a Harvard degree—all Commencement speakers who are chosen by a four-member and tight-lipped committee recieve an honorary degree from the University at the ceremony...
...little fanciful to imagine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signing a historic peace agreement with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the White House lawn, with President Barack Obama looking on. Taken at face value, Israel's new hard-line government is not exactly campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize...