Word: prizes
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Gordimer, who won the Nobel Prize for literature 1991, has also been a crusader in her country...
Galway Kinnell, winner of the 1982 National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for poetry, read from his own works in Sever Hall yesterday afternoon...
...rich merchant's son named Fuqui (played by Ge You, who won the best-actor prize at the Cannes festival this year) waters the local casino tables with his father's fortune. Fuqui is a cool dude in line for comeuppance, and he soon learns humility the hard way; it arrives like a 30- ( year plague. He and his wife (Gong Li) are bankrupted, then branded as decadent curs. But the pestilence is not localized; every family suffers. In the '60s, doctors are locked up, leaving the hospitals in the control of those bullying incompetents, the Red Guards. All that...
...windswept steppes, 20 miles outside the city of Ust-Kamenogorsk. The material had been sent to the plant in the 1970s to be made into fuel rods for Soviet naval vessels. While the Soviets had abandoned it as their union collapsed in 1991, it remained quite a prize: there was enough nuclear material there to spawn as many as 36 atom bombs...
...Minneapolis. Had we known then what we know now about S&Ls, we might have been able to guess that in 1991 he would be convicted of fraud. Molecular biologist David Baltimore was 36 when TIME selected him for the 1974 list; the following year he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and in 1990 he became president of Rockefeller University, an ultra-prestigious research institution. But 18 months later, he resigned as a result of a scandal over data falsified by one of his researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Robert Sanchez, the Archbishop of Sante Fe, made...