With passion and humor, Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi called for an intellectual response rather than military action against religious fundamentalism in a talk Thursday, Dec. 4, at Princeton University. “What counts is to eliminate the grounds that these type of people thrive on,” such as illiteracy, said […]
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Death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Colombian writer and Nobel laureate dies aged 87
Nobel prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez has died at the age of 87.The literary giant, considered to be one of the greatest Spanish-language authors of all time, had spent nine days in hospital with a lung and urinary tract infection this month. A source close to his family confirmed his death. He had […]