[CIMC-work] Future center panels

[Mitchell Szczepanczyk]

I believe that Nobels have been rejected only three times.  One was
Sartre who won for literature in 1980; another was rejected by Lee Duc
Tho, who shared the Peace prize in 1973 with Kissinger(?!).

If Kathy wins and then declines the award (and she's been nominated
twice before), it would make even more of a historic headline.  Which
would really say something: The prize comes with a cash award of, I think
it's up to $1.3 million, and if you decline the prize, you can reclaim
it later, but the cash award disappears forever.

Chicago has already claimed two winners this year; it'd be cool if Kathy
made it a hat-trick.

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_ Z  Mitchell Szczepanczyk
  /  http://home.uchicago.edu/~msszczep http://www.chicagomediaaction.org
     http://www.geocities.com/szczepanczyk http://chicago.indymedia.org

On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Garth Liebhaber wrote:

> Mitchell,
> 
> good thinking.  I support both the first and the second.  don't know if Kathy Kelly is up for the nobel or 
> not, but I have a good image of her.  I like the idea of doing a story anyway.  Didn't Sartre turn down the 
> Nobel because he said it defeated the point of his novels if he accepted that type of "fame".  It was 
> also awarded to Kissinger for the1974 Paris Peace talks...  I read in a recent Catholic Worker that 
> Kathy made an offhand comment to another Peacemaker while in Iraq.  It was a frustrated statement 
> that "when we return, we'll be famous".  We could obviously get into a good but long discussion on 
> hero worship and how it debilitates people from real-action.