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Keywords: Nobel Prize

ARTS AND CULTURE

Aloofness the price for master critic's knowledge and incisiveness
- Clive O'Connell
- 13 June 2007
2003 Nobel Literature prizewinner and Adelaide research fellow J.M. Coetzee, offers even-handed judgements about arcane authors. He assesses their work with an understanding assurance that abstains from proclaiming genius where there is only fitful talent.
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AUSTRALIA

Children must be raised, not idolised
- Daniel Donahoo
- 08 March 2007
6 Comments
Our idolising of childhood and youth means we treat them like demi-gods, and in doing so fail to honour their humanity. UNICEF research shows that the overall health and well-being of Australian children is poor compared with those in most other developed countries.
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AUSTRALIA

Long road back for Ramos Horta
- Paul Cleary
- 27 February 2007
In 2006, the East Timorese government’s inept handling of a dispute in the army involving soldiers from the western region of East Timor put the young nation on the brink of civil war. Now Jose Ramos Horta has been installed as Prime Minister, but will it make a difference?
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RELIGION

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands
- Chris Fotinopoulos
- 13 November 2006
Many within the conservative Christian camp have come to accept music as an effective means of spreading the gospel. Artists, by virtue of their creative independence, can, if they choose, talk "truth" to the State. No group should force anyone to sing and clap to a single tune.
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AUSTRALIA

Middle East nuclear abolition dreaming
- Bill Williams
- 30 October 2006
6 Comments
Western nations are tightening the noose around Iran’s neck for its nuclear recalcitrance. Meanwhile, Israel lashes out at guerrilla forces embedded in civilian populations in Lebanon, electing not to use its unacknowledged nuclear weaponry, on this occasion.
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AUSTRALIA

Compassion requires more courage than war
- Katharina Weiss
- 07 August 2006
To fight wars we have to deny our own and others’ humanity. Israeli Defence Force commander General Dan Halutz was asked about his feelings when he piloted a plane dropping bombs on people in Gaza in 2002. His reply was that he felt 'a light bump to the plane'.
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AUSTRALIA

Images that stick in my mind
- Morag Fraser
- 24 July 2006
Out of the chaos of the past weeks, three images fix themselves in my mind. Images from Israel, Lebanon, London. Three people, three individual experiences. If only the boy could be educated by the woman. If only the man could mentor both boys.
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AUSTRALIA

Long road back for Ramos Horta
- Paul Cleary
- 10 July 2006
5 Comments
In 2006, the East Timorese government’s inept handling of a dispute in the army involving soldiers from the western region of East Timor put the young nation on the brink of civil war. Now Jose Ramos Horta has been installed as Prime Minister, but will it make a difference?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Found in translation
- Kevin Hart
- 08 July 2006
Kevin Hart on the poetry and essays of Czeslaw Milosz.
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AUSTRALIA

Seoul-centring Korea
- Gavan McCormack
- 04 July 2006
Encouraging the North–South relationship offers the best hope for North Korea and the world
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INFORMATION

Peace drums in Europe
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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ENVIRONMENT

Creating evolution
- Tim Thwaites
- 01 July 2006
We are so used to the astonishing applications of genetics these days that a milestone has passed almost unnoticed.
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Keywords: Nobel Prize