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Last year, Stephen Greenblatt, the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, took home a National Book Award for nonfiction for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. Today he was recognized with another prestigious literary prize.Greenblatt s book, which describes how an ancient Roman philosophical epic helped pave the way for modern thought, was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.In its citation, the Pulitzer board described The Swerve as a provocative book arguing that an obscure work of philosophy, discovered nearly 600 years ago, changed the course of history by anticipati stanley cup ng the science and sensibilities of today. The book tells the story of Lucretius On the Nature of Things, which 2,000 years ago posited a number of revolutionary ideas 鈥?that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal m stanley cup otion, colliding an stanley cup d swerving in new dire Croh BBC Radio s prestigious Reith Lectures delivered by Sandel
As Simon Wiesenthal himself might well have said, we cannot just consign this evil to the past and forget about it, Mr. Annan said at the ceremony yesterday. Every generation must be on its guard. Simon devoted decades to this struggle. His work to pursue a proper reckoning for those who committed the crimes of the Holocaust sent an im stanley cups portant mess stanley cup age to the world that impunity should not be allowed to stand, he added.From his first meeting with Mr. Wiesenthal, Mr. Annan said he came away more convinced than ever of the need for the UN stanley canada to remain at the centre of the world s struggle for human rights and human dignity.In that context, he cited landmarks such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Genocide Convention, the establishment of the UN, the International Criminal Court and ad hoc criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.At the recent World Summit, he said, world leaders agreed in clear and unambiguous language that they have a responsibility to pr
Last year, Stephen Greenblatt, the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, took home a National Book Award for nonfiction for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. Today he was recognized with another prestigious literary prize.Greenblatt s book, which describes how an ancient Roman philosophical epic helped pave the way for modern thought, was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.In its citation, the Pulitzer board described The Swerve as a provocative book arguing that an obscure work of philosophy, discovered nearly 600 years ago, changed the course of history by anticipati stanley cup ng the science and sensibilities of today. The book tells the story of Lucretius On the Nature of Things, which 2,000 years ago posited a number of revolutionary ideas 鈥?that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal m stanley cup otion, colliding an stanley cup d swerving in new dire Croh BBC Radio s prestigious Reith Lectures delivered by Sandel
As Simon Wiesenthal himself might well have said, we cannot just consign this evil to the past and forget about it, Mr. Annan said at the ceremony yesterday. Every generation must be on its guard. Simon devoted decades to this struggle. His work to pursue a proper reckoning for those who committed the crimes of the Holocaust sent an im stanley cups portant mess stanley cup age to the world that impunity should not be allowed to stand, he added.From his first meeting with Mr. Wiesenthal, Mr. Annan said he came away more convinced than ever of the need for the UN stanley canada to remain at the centre of the world s struggle for human rights and human dignity.In that context, he cited landmarks such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Genocide Convention, the establishment of the UN, the International Criminal Court and ad hoc criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.At the recent World Summit, he said, world leaders agreed in clear and unambiguous language that they have a responsibility to pr
