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...insists that Alfred and Emily will be her last. Lessing says her energy has been sapped by ever-increasing burdens, such as taking care of her middle-aged diabetic son and dealing with the publicity she has faced since becoming the oldest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature last October. "When you're young you doubtless think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace," she says. "This is profoundly untrue...
...WALL-E to have a shot at the big prize, Disney, Pixar's parent company, would have to foot the bill for a Best Picture campaign, and it is not clear the studio is ready to do that. "While it is certainly gratifying to know that the audience and critical response to WALL-E has sparked these types of discussions, it's premature to discuss our plans for the awards season," says Jasmine Madatian, Disney's senior vice president of publicity...
...Power, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2003 book “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,” made headlines this spring for describing Senator Hillary Clinton as a “monster...
...Many think Africa can. The emerging generation of leaders wants Mugabe and his fellow dinosaurs to go. Last year Sudanese telecoms billionaire Mo Ibrahim inaugurated a $5 million prize to reward those who govern well, and peacefully give up office. An increasing number of Africans believe they can ask for better behavior from their leaders. Observer missions from the A.U., the Southern African Development Community and the Pan-African Parliament declared Zimbabwe's poll not credible. Some went further. Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma said Africa must "in no uncertain terms, condemn what has happened"; and former Archbishop Desmond...
...appear in its original form, and then in an obscure, scholarly publication. It takes a genius to strike the funny bone in a way that can still smart nearly 100 years later. The nation's highest official accolade for comedy is the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which will be awarded this November to the late George Carlin--another man whose commentary grew bleaker and more biting in his last years. But old Mark, unvarnished, might be too hot for cable, even, today...