Nobel

• “But the rest of the world copies loud and clear (to use the martial vocabulary of our functionaries or, better yet, of Vargas Llosa's own character, Pantaleon), that this Nobel is as much ours as was the Cuban "boom" sparked by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jose Saramago. 
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  The Huffington Post: Yoani Sanchez: Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel...

• “I don't think the Nobel is awarded based on what you're not.”

  Super Obamario Wins The Nobel Peace Prize! » E-Mail

• “Perhaps an Ig Nobel, but hey, a Nobel is a Nobel, and maybe you'll get a free dinner too.”

  Balkinization

• “JOHNROBERTS: Al Gore there, giving his acceptance speech upon winning the Nobel Peace Prize, what they call the Nobel lecture there, speaking about climate change in the most urgent of terms, saying we're at the 11th hour, almost at the point, Veronica, of no return.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2007

• “But the rest of the world copies loud and clear (to use the martial vocabulary of our functionaries or, better yet, of Vargas Llosa's own character, Pantaleon), that this Nobel is as much ours as was the Cuban "boom" sparked by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jose Saramago. 

Mario Vargas Llosa resisted and eventually his carefully chosen words have become much more significant and longer lasting than the flood of verbiage that spills from our island stage.”

  The Huffington Post: Yoani Sanchez: Our Vargas Llosa who art in Nobel...

• “Native New Yorkers attended before, and some of them went on to win Nobel Prizes.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals

• “So far, Di Tella and MacCulloch seems eerily similar to a passage in Nobel-prize-worthy Anne Krueger's "The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society," published over three decades ago: If the market mechanism is suspect, the inevitable temptation is to resort to greater and greater intervention, thereby increasing the amount of economic activity devoted to rent seeking.”

  How the Rational Voter Assumption Derails Promising Research, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “The Nobel is only the most recent laurel in a career that has earned him the Cervantes Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award, the Planeta and countless honors around the globe.”

  The Washington Post: The power of Mario Vargas Llosa's words led the political writer to Nobel Prize

• “The latter four went on to win Nobel Prizes of their own after leaving the KWImF.”

  Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry

• “It wouldn't be very nice of any country to do that, and its leaders might not win Nobel Peace Prizes, but nobody could call those leaders naïve. ac”

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