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Along with their collaborator, Andrea Repetto, an economics professor at the University of Chile, Laibson and Tobacman will each receive $1,000 in prize money for their entry...
...write to congratulate Shai Sachs on his excellent call for divestment from Shell Oil (Opinion, Nov. 19). As Mr. Sachs pointed out, this November marks the third anniversary of the execution of nine human rights activists, including Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa, by the military dictatorship of Nigeria. This is only one of the dictatorship's many major human rights violations encouraged and supported by Shell, which provides more than 50 percent of the government's funding...
...tense now glittering in tuxedos and sequins. There was some disappointment over Tom Wolfe's absence. The room, so festive in black, had expected a coronation for the man so tailored in white: his A Man in Full was the talk of the town, the favorite for the fiction prize. But then John Updike, the most influential of America's living novelists, took the stage looking as sharp as a scythe. What a night for a beheading...
...completes an ambitious trilogy of novels that dissect great examples of human folly. But to say that Bainbridge--who is perhaps one of the best living novelists Americans don't know much about, and whose work, including this latest novel, has been shortlisted five times for the prestigious Booker Prize--writes historical fiction is like saying that Jane Austen wrote domestic comedies. These three novels, each around a mere 200 pages, are epics under a microscope, reducing the sweep of history to the random collisions of its human players...
Last night, first-years Alok Bhushan, Kendrick N. Kay and Eleanor E. Williams won first prize and $15,000 each in the ThinkQuest Internet Challenge in Universal City, Calif...