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Rita Nakashima Brock, director of the Bunting Institute, introduced Gobodo-Madikizela, praising her "unwavering commitment to justice...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: S. African Jurist Talks At Bunting | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...work has worldwide implications," Brock said...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: S. African Jurist Talks At Bunting | 11/5/1998 | See Source »

...takes someone a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty, as David Brock once put it, to assemble such a combustible mixture. Lionized in the acclaimed movie The People vs. Larry Flynt, the smut publisher came across as a crusader for principle (he went to jail to uphold the First Amendment) with a self-deprecating candor (he doesn't pretend that men buy his magazine to read the profiles). But Hustler's taste for barnyard animals and meat grinders in close proximity to unairbrushed women is so gross that Gloria Steinem and Jerry Falwell found themselves on the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecent Proposal | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...lectures on modern feminist issues and concerns, there is a series of film screenings and an optional Millenium Series of lectures. The six-week series includes lectures by Rita Nakashima Brock, Barbara Ehrenreich, Professor of English Marjorie Garber, Smith Professor of French Language and Literature Juliet Schor and Urvashi Vaid...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Can You Take It? The Latest Shopping List of 11 | 9/18/1998 | See Source »

Most practitioners of the nonapology are politicians who like the passive voice and the conditional. Former Senator Brock Adams never admitted to pursuing anyone but apologized in case he had made "their sensibilities feel affronted." Gibberish is the hallmark of the conditional apology. Newt Gingrich, who pleaded guilty to ethics violations, was sorry "to whatever degree in any way that I brought controversy or inappropriate attention to the House." Senator Alfonse D'Amato said he was sorry "if I've offended anyone," when he knew full well whom he had offended with his buck-toothed, "no tickee, no laundry" mimicry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now Say It Like You Mean It | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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