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...contributions toward renewing US-China ties, and his personal relationships with Mao and Zhou mark him with greatness by association. Add to this the Chinese worship of academic achievement. The year I studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, I was shocked by reaction to a lecture by a Nobel Prize-winning economist; the overflow crowd stampeded the podium afterwards, jostling for photos and autographs. When Steven Hawking appeared at Beijing's Great Hall of the People last summer, crazed fans rushed the stage. I know young women who get weak-kneed at the mention of Albert Einstein...
...Harvard, Crawford was active within the WHRB radio station, a member of a church choir during the spring of her senior year, a Phi Beta Kappa member and a Hoopes Prize recipient. She also presented the Latin Oration at the Commencement exercises for her graduating class...
...chances may be boosted by the fact that Nobel Peace Prize laureate José Ramos-Horta, a Gusmão ally, fended off the Fretilin candidate to assume the post of President...
...seemed like a perfect union of literary acclaim and Bollywood glitz. He: a Booker Prize-winning author and one of India's most acclaimed literary exports. She: a gorgeous model-turned-actress turned cooking-show host. Little wonder then that this week's announcement that Salman Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi are splitting after just three years of marriage is front page news across India, the country of their births if not their main residence...
...Simpsons (and Terms of Endearment and Broadcast News)? Indeed, I'd stack this year's Easter Egg episode of South Park, or last year's Dog Whisperer, or half a dozen of the Butters shows, against nearly any recent film that has won the top Oscar or critics' prize...