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...radio talk-show report about how the coming of autumn is a harbinger of death; from then on, Caden's life is one long fall. Reading the newspaper, Caden sees a headline about a playwright. "Harold Pinter's dead," he muses aloud. "No, wait, he won the Nobel Prize." He glances at the TV and sees his own animated form as part of a cartoon show, accompanied by the sing-song lyrics: "Then he died / Maybe someone cried / But not his ex-bride...
...dark years of the early 1930s: stimulating demand by spending much more than they take in, preferably but not necessarily on useful public works like highways and schools. "I guess everyone is a Keynesian in a foxhole," jokes Robert Lucas, a University of Chicago economist who won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for theories that criticized Keynes...
SCARLETT JOHANSSON to host Nobel Prize concert. Finally, she'll be the most attractive person in the room...
...novel of suburban sorcery, The Witches of Eastwick. In Indignation, published in September, Roth retells the story of Portnoy's Complaint, the brilliant, pneumatically obscene book that made him famous. And in A Mercy, due out in November, Morrison--the last American writer to win a Nobel Prize for Literature--tells the story of a mother who loses her daughter to slavery, just as she did in Beloved...
...Food program. The MacArthur Foundation is one of the U.S.’s largest philanthropic organizations, with a $7 billion dollar endowment and a $300 million annual philanthropic budget. Goldstone is the award’s second recipient; Kofi Annan was the first. Goldstone will receive the prize in the Hague, the site of the International Criminal Court, on May 21. “It’s an exciting award because it gives recognition to the tremendous advancements in international criminal justice over the past 14 years,” Goldstone said in an interview yesterday. According...