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...literature and peace prizes regularly inspire controversy. Jean-Paul Sartre rejected his 1964 prize in literature, though his family tried to claim the award money after his death. Pablo Neruda wanted a Nobel Prize so much that he reportedly wined and dined Swedish writers and academics at his seaside villa; he finally won one in 1971. Bob Dylan has been nominated six times, Jerry Lewis once. In 2004, the literature prize went to Austrian feminist Elfriede Jelinek, a move so controversial that one assembly member resigned in protest. Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho shared a 1973 Peace Prize...
...upper Manhattan and that his tax returns - Rangel is the chairman of the tax-code-writing House Ways and Means Committee - were such a mess that he was hiring a "forensic auditor" to figure out why he had failed to report $75,000 in rental income from a villa in the Dominican Republic. Adding to the tangle of questions was the fact that even as he was living in those New York apartments and being charged less than half what they would have cost on the going market, Rangel was claiming a homestead exemption on a house he owns...
...wasn’t my idea. I had just written a biography of Balthus, and my editor in England said, ‘You know, there’s never been a biography of Le Corbusier.’ I had been to [Le Corbusier’s] Villa La Roche in France in the 1970s and loved it like few other buildings in my life, but I knew nothing about the man. And when I began to get to know Le Corbusier—in writing his biography—I found that I knew even less about...
...mercenaries who work alongside the understaffed U.S. military in the shadows of the Iraq war. Fainaru, a Washington Post reporter and 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, was embedded with the mercs of Crescent Security Group--a ragged outfit that "commutes to war" in armored pickup trucks from their Kuwait City villa, braving ambushes and enemy fire to help ferry convoys and cargo along Iraq's perilous highways. Some--like Jonathon Coté, a former paratrooper who plays practical jokes on his comrades and doles out toys to local kids--earn their paychecks and adrenaline rushes with honor. Others are renegade cowboys with...
...completely unshaken. Even with the righteousness of the Lord coursing through her blood, with all her health and strength, her legs still quivered slightly as she ran. Slowly, as though led by a will stronger than her own, Roxanna found herself drawn away from the Florentine villa into the trees and toward the river. It was late afternoon, and the summer air had begun to turn to the evening’s coolness. The sun’s slanting rays caused the leaves and the white bark of the birches to shine. The Stable’s Boy?...