Word: prized
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...radio talk-show report about how the coming of autumn is a harbinger of death; from then on, Caden's life is one long fall. Reading the newspaper, Caden sees a headline about a playwright. "Harold Pinter's dead," he muses aloud. "No, wait, he won the Nobel Prize." He glances at the TV and sees his own animated form as part of a cartoon show, accompanied by the sing-song lyrics: "Then he died / Maybe someone cried / But not his ex-bride...
...dark years of the early 1930s: stimulating demand by spending much more than they take in, preferably but not necessarily on useful public works like highways and schools. "I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole," jokes Robert Lucas, a University of Chicago economist who won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for theories that criticized Keynes...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON to host Nobel Prize concert. Finally, she'll be the most attractive person in the room...
...lust for the study break prize threatens to reach such levels, then Rose has a better alternative...
...Food program. The MacArthur Foundation is one of the U.S.’s largest philanthropic organizations, with a $7 billion dollar endowment and a $300 million annual philanthropic budget. Goldstone is the award’s second recipient; Kofi Annan was the first. Goldstone will receive the prize in the Hague, the site of the International Criminal Court, on May 21. “It’s an exciting award because it gives recognition to the tremendous advancements in international criminal justice over the past 14 years,” Goldstone said in an interview yesterday. According...