Stories tagged with "nobel laureate"

Dalai Lama to visit Indiana in spring by Robert King

His itinerary includes stops in Indianapolis and Bloomington The Dalai Lama plans to return next spring to Tibetan Buddhism’s oasis near Bloomington, but he also will make a... – Dec 10, 2009 at 1:28 AM in Faith & Values

Obama's rave reviews by indystar

Boy, I’ll tell you. Sometimes I think Barack Obama couldn’t please some folks if he won the Nobel Peace Prize. What’s that you say? No! And how’d they take... – Oct 14, 2009 at 12:00 AM in Dan Carpenter

Nobel prize may not smooth Obama's way by indystar

Surprise Nobel honor might only increase expectations WASHINGTON — Now that he’s Nobel laureate Barack Obama, will he find smoother sailing for his plans to rid the... – Oct 10, 2009 at 12:00 AM in Communities

Toni Morrison speaks up for free speech by USA Today

NEW YORK — The setting was divine — a duplex on the Upper East Side. The featured speaker, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.The subjects: sex, violence and profanity.In... – Jun 04, 2009 at 3:09 PM in Entertainment

Author Cormac McCarthy receives PEN award by USA Today

NEW YORK (AP) — Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy has received another literary honor.The author of The Road, All the Pretty Horses and several other novels was named the... – May 04, 2009 at 8:31 PM in Entertainment

New Al Gore book coming this fall by USA Today

NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate's Al Gore's follow-up to his best-selling An Inconvenient Truth, originally planned for last spring, is coming out this fall with a new... – Mar 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM in Entertainment

Phillips' 'Lark Termite' has a sound and fury all its own by USA Today

It takes nerve to open a book with a epigraph drawn from one of the Great American Novels, The Sound and the Fury — and then model the narrative after it.Like William... – Mar 18, 2009 at 5:32 PM in Entertainment

Critic's Corner Monday by USA Today

To view this presentation, you need to install the Flash plug-inGET IT NOWE-mail Robert Bianco at rbianco@usatoday.com•Many of you will be thrilled to hear that... – Mar 08, 2009 at 10:46 PM in Entertainment

Marilynne Robinson finalist for critics award by The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- Presidential favorite Marilynne Robinson, the late Roberto Bolano of Chile and a memoir about Africa featured last year at Starbucks were among the... – Jan 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM in Entertainment

Gore, enviros celebrate changing of the guard by The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Green is suddenly glamorous again.After chafing under eight years of President George W. Bush's environmental policies, advocates supporting renewable... – Jan 20, 2009 at 7:02 AM in Entertainment

Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter dies at 78 by The Associated Press

LONDON (AP) -- British Nobel laureate Harold Pinter - who produced some of his generation's most influential dramas and later became a staunch critic of the U.S.-led war... – Dec 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM in Entertainment