<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> One of the most ingenious and least known rescue missions of World War II was engineered by a young American dandy, Varian Fry, who shepherded to safety hundreds of European intellectuals wanted by the Nazis</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> America has won more Nobel Prizes in medicine than any other nation: it’s easy when you have the money, the technology, and people from every other nation</span> </span></p>
<p>We've gotten one farce after another from the secretive judges at the Swedish Academy who confer the world's most prestigious prize for literature.</p>
