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Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace Prize-winning economics professor whose pioneering Grameen Bank fights poverty with microcredit...
...Former activist Kazimierz Kutz, now a member of parliament, says Jaruzelski's actions allowed moderates on both sides to prevail, eventually leading to the Round Table talks that brought a peaceful end to Poland's communist regime in 1989. Even Lech Walesa, the legendary Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner who was interned for almost a year in the clampdown, has said that Jaruzelski would have been considered a "great patriot" had he lived in different times and that the trial was a "mistake...
...writer alive has been so fully canonized as V. S. Naipaul. He won the Booker, was knighted, had a great masterpiece published (“Bend In the River”), and won the Nobel Prize (too late, he claimed, for it to make him happy). This year he received the compliment of an accomplished warts-and-all biography (lesser writers receive praise while they’re living, and are damned when they’re dead). But he is miserable. Every time he writes a novel he claims it will be his last—because novels...
...portray not just the politics at the border, but also the “really emotional issues.” Internews received more than 500 entries for the competition. An international jury then selected 30 finalists, and Internet users worldwide voted to choose the winner of the Public Prize. Long studied development as an undergraduate at Brown and received a masters in journalism from Stanford. She reported for NPR and the Associated Press before coming to the Law School. “I became frustrated with what I could do from a journalistic perspective, and decided that I want...
...Nobel Prize-winning economist and University Professor Amartya Sen talked with Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Paul Farmer in a conversation moderated by University President Drew G. Faust...