An Inconvenient Truth
穆罕默德·尤努斯 / Muhammad Yunus
穆罕默德·尤努斯（1940— ），孟加拉窮人銀行家、經濟學家、格拉明銀行（又稱孟加拉鄉村銀行）創始人。曾留學美國，獲得經濟學碩士和博士學位。回國後執教於吉大港大學，創辦格拉明銀行。該銀行開創和發展了“微額貸款”的服務，專門提供給因貧窮而無法獲得傳統銀行貸款的創業者，因此使數百萬人受益，為消除世界貧困做出了重要貢獻。
Ace in the Hole
Understand these new words before you read this article.
1. confront v. 遭遇；比較；麵對
2. extinction n. 消滅；消失；廢止
3. forge v. 偽造；做鍛工；鍛造
4. conceit n. 自負；狂妄；幻想
Your Majesties， Your Royal Highnesses， honorable members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee， Excellencies， Ladies and Gentlemen，
I have a purpose here today. It is a purpose I have tried to serve for many years. I have prayed that God would show me a way to accomplish it.
Sometimes， without warning， the future knocks on our door with a precious and painful vision of what might be. One hundred and nineteen years ago， a wealthy inventor read his own obituary， mistakenly published years before his death. Wrongly believing the inventor had just died， a newspaper printed a harsh judgment of his life， s work， unfairly labeling him “The Merchant of Death” because of his invention—dynamite. Shaken by this condemnation， the inventor made a fateful choice to serve the cause of peace.
Seven years later， Alfred Nobel created this prize and the others that bear his name.
Seven years ago tomorrow， I read my own political obituary in a judgment that seemed to me harsh and mistaken—if not premature. But that unwelcome verdict also brought a precious if painful gift： an opportunity to search for fresh new ways to serve my purpose.