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Croatia isn't known for its writers. Still, when the government offered 12,000 kuna ($2,000) in a national competition for a new slogan, the winner--"Croatia, Paradise on Earth"--seemed suspiciously weak. Turns out the author was the wife of Minister of Tourism Niko Bulic, who had entered the contest under her maiden name, Dubravka Petricic. Since the scandal broke, Bulic has resigned and promised to give the prize money to charity. As for a slogan, it appears that they're sticking to the "Paradise on Earth" thing. After all, the previous slogan was "Croatia--A Small Country...
...Carol Shields, a Pulitzer Prize-winner for The Stone Diaries, ever tires of writing fiction, she should consider taking up biography. Her newest novel, Larry's Party, paints a subtle portrait of Larry Weller by taking, as the book jacket states, "a CAT scan of his life." If Shields can make a fictional character seem so alive, she could do wonders with an actual human being...
Tribune Editor and co-owner Michael G. Gartner, a Pulitzer prize winner and former president of NBC News, contends that the Daily is using its tax-free status, university subsidized circulation and non-student business staff to compete unfairly with the Tribune...
Harvard, along with the rest of the Ivy League, are members of NCAA division 1-AA football, and as such, are entitled to compete with teams such as this year's opponents Lehigh and Bucknell for a berth in the 1-AA playoffs. The winner of the Patriot League, against whom Harvard is 1-1 this season, receives an automatic bid to the 16-team playoff...
STOCKHOLM: Brushing aside objections that they only give prizes to white European males, the Nobel Academy Thursday awarded its prize for Literature? to a white European male. It is, nevertheless, likely to be a popular choice: the winner has amused audiences the world over...