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Desmond Tutu may be retired, but he isn't retiring. Wise and witty as ever, the Nobel Prize-winning South African Archbishop remains an outspoken and compelling figure 12 years after his nonviolent activism helped abolish apartheid. Earlier this month, he marked his 75th birthday with the release of his authorized biography, Rabble-Rouser for Peace. Tutu talked with TIME's Sonja Steptoe about aging, the divisions in the Anglican Church and Nelson Mandela's questionable sense of style...
...testing a weapon would mark the crossing of a threshold over which retreat may be difficult. Only one country has ever dismantled an arsenal of actual nuclear weapons, and that was South Africa during the early 1990s, in one of the final acts of the outgoing apartheid regime...
...days, the two have been talking about an alumni network Higginbotham plans on establishing. The network is part of a broader focus on community-based learning. Higginbotham, whose late husband A. Leon Higginbotham was a federal judge and an international mediator for South Africa’s first post-apartheid elections in 1994, wants students to be introduced to “careers that are successful and also do good—careers that clearly will support them and make them feel they can pay back their college loans, but at the same time are careers that make a social...
...hear Muslims blaming terrorism on British and U.S. foreign policy. That is the lamest excuse, and going off on some guilt trip, as some Westerners do, is unfortunate. As Africans, my brethren and I did not find it tempting to engage in terrorism in the trying periods of apartheid, slavery, colonialism and the civil-rights movement. It's time Western societies recognize an excuse when they see one; otherwise, the threatening boast of the mullahs-the forced Islamization of the West-will become a reality sooner than anyone can imagine. Boma Gogo Bonny Island, Nigeria...
...science. And it worries that scientists, taking advantage of its ignorance, will spiral out of control, that technology will subsume humanity. Such fears have been poignantly crystallized in movies such as “Gattaca,” where the quest for genetic perfection leads to a new, scientific apartheid, or “Blade Runner,” in which cloning has blurred the line between human and non-human beyond recognition. The way that society has chosen to deal with that fear is to hold scientists at arms length, to label them “the other...