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...Pistol Pete is hoping to serve up a comeback. Sampras is set to play in the Outback Champions Series in May--the 14-time Grand Slam winner's first tournament since...
Cech, a 1989 Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, has served as the head of Howard Hughes—the nation’s second-richest philanthropic organization—for the past seven years. He is also a longtime faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he maintains an active lab. He said that those two commitments weighed heavily in his decision to withdraw his name...
...Among the report's recommendations: Don't side with one faction in Iraq over another - history has shown that trying to pick a winner in a civil war rarely succeeds. Don't push for a three-way partition of the country as some in Congress have advocated - except for the Kurds, most Iraqis oppose it. Don't dump the problem on the United Nations, which isn't equipped to handle...
After months of searing criticism over a book comparing Israel’s treatment of Palestinians with earlier state-sponsored racism in South Africa, President Jimmy Carter met an overwhelmingly friendly crowd at a Harvard Square bookstore on Jan. 23. The Nobel Peace Prize winner signed copies of “Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid” at the Harvard Coop while in town for a highly anticipated speech at Brandeis University. Coop President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 said he had ordered 1,600 copies of “Palestine” for the store. The hundreds...
...Pulitzer Prize-winner and a doctoral student are among this spring’s crop of fellows at the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ellen Goodman ’63, Blogform Publishing CEO Michael Maier, former ABC political correspondent Linda Douglass, and University of California at Los Angeles doctoral student Elizabeth Stein are this semester’s fellows, the Center announced Monday. In addition, Mark Halperin ’87, the political director of ABC News, will serve as a non-resident joint fellow...