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Read about the 2008 Booker Prize winner...
Last year's fiction winner, Denis Johnson's 624-page Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), for example, was a critical darling and Pulitzer finalist, that, like those first NBA winners, failed to top bestseller lists. And in 2001, Jonathan Franzen, winner of the fiction award for his 500-page work The Corrections, bristled at being chosen for Oprah's Book Club a month prior, inciting calls of elitism from other writers. But the foundation has recognized some household names in its past: Oprah Winfrey herself received a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1999, as did horror...
...only real winner here is and always was Google. (It remains to be seen whether Microsoft will strike a deal with the next Yahoo! in Chief.) While I'm not suggesting that Google CEO Eric Schmidt was dissembling when he said in March that he was concerned about a Microsoft-Yahoo! deal, and I'm sure his motives were pure when he tried to broker his own deal to partner with Yahoo!, let's not forget that Google was once more competitive with Yahoo! than it was with Microsoft. That is, Google's search engine and subsequent targeted-ad strategy...
...attended the University of Indiana, where he played rugby and bought a nightclub that he named Motley's. He says he had to shut down the bar when authorities discovered that the winner of an in-house wet T-shirt contest was a 16-year-old girl on probation for prostitution...
...Dalai Lama for seeking "disguised independence," and dredged up old charges about the Tibetan leader's alleged failure to prevent exile groups from staging protests at the Beijing Olympics this summer. Beijing's later comments were even more strident, with one official alleging that the Nobel Peace Prize winner's proposal for policies favoring Tibetans was a form of ethnic cleansing. After so many unsuccessful attempts, the Dalai Lama and his advisers had to have been well aware of what the Chinese reaction would be to their proposals, especially given the fact that the 73-year-old admitted shortly before...