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Kennedy School Professor Samantha Power has travelled the globe interviewing the victims, culprits, and arbitrators of human rights atoricities. Yet, she found the inspiration for her Pultizer Prize-winning work,“A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” right here in Cambridge. With the encouragement of University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, what started as a 30-page assignment grew into an 80-page term paper and ultimately a book. Power, along with dozens of other scholars, paid tribute to Hoffmann’s influential career at an 80th birthday celebration held...
...Economist warns about "the perils of incrementalism." Nobel Prize--winning economist Joseph Stiglitz cautions that we must not let "latter-day Hooverites" stop us from thinking "big--very big." Stiglitz himself is thinking "at least $600 billion to $1 trillion," which is pretty big. Paul Krugman, another Nobel economist, says there is an "intense debate" over how big the stimulus should be. Krugman doesn't offer a number, but he makes it clear that he is not going to be outbid...
Elie Wiesel Nobel Peace Prize--winning author and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University...
...China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, "the summit cannot be held in a sound atmosphere, nor can it achieve expected goals." The reason? The French President's plan to meet with Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on December 6 as part of an event honoring fellow Nobel peace prize winner Solidarity leader Lech Walesa in Poland.(See pictures of the Dalai Lama's decades of spiritual leadership...
...yards. Stitched into balloons was a return address, and those who found one could return it to Macy's for a $100 reward. Unfortunately their flights weren't so peaceful. Out of five balloons, three landed in Long Island (one was torn to pieces by neighbors competing for the prize), one drifted into the East River, and one floated out to sea never to return. Stubbornly, Macy's tried the balloon release again, but in 1932 an errant balloon wrapped itself around a passing airplane's wing, sending it into a tailspin. The balloon release plan was abandoned...