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...first Latin country to get there, and the IOC's selection is as much an endorsement of that achievement as it is of Rio's $14 billion bid to hold the games. The Nobel literature committee awarded Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez its prize in 1982 in part to affirm the global influence of Latin America's magical realist tradition. Now, giving Rio the Olympics sends a strong signal to the rest of the developing world that the Brazilian model - the post-ideological mix of orthodox market economics and progressive social policy championed by Lula...
...silver speedo, sneakers, and paint, a man darted around the atrium of Sanders Theatre last night—sticking out, to say the least, as students, Nobel laureates, and followers of the Annals of Improbable Research filed in to attend the “19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony” last night...
...Nobel Peace Prize was awarded for research from the University of Bern, Switzerland. Stephan Bolliger and Steffen Ross sought to determine whether a full or empty beer bottle did more damage when smashed over someone’s head (it was the latter). Bolliger accepted the award with a smile and proceeded to smash a prop bottle over his own head...
...Economics prize was awarded to officials of four Icelandic banks. None of the award recipients came to receive the award—one of multiple jokes coming at the expense of the banking industry...
...Kadyrov's racehorses have already found fortune at prominent equestrian events. Bronze Cannon, a four-year-old thoroughbred, won the prestigious Hardwicke Stakes race at Ascot in July. His Indian Jameson stallion won the honor prize at the Moscow Hippodrome's 175th anniversary. Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda reported on July 18 that Kadyrov had entered no less than 11 racehorses into the Moscow event, all of which, Kadyrov told the paper, belong to Chechnya, as do the two horses entered into the Spring Carnival. With Kadyrov's official income declaration of an $110,000 salary and a 36 square-meter...