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...with cancer and last year an auto accident that grievously injured his 9-year-old daughter. The private side has won out, as Tartikoff relinquished his Paramount post last week to spend more time with his recuperating child. His 15-month reign included the rough seas of the plodding Columbus epic 1492: Conquest of Paradise and the register-ringing teen-twitter Wayne's World...
EQUAAL has held tables on the ethnic aspects of celebrating Columbus Day inthe U.S. and on gender issues involved inTuesday's presidential election. At the end ofNovember, the group will organize an outing to seeVisiting Lecturer Spike Lee's movie "Malcolm X,"to be followed by a roundtable discussion...
...Eric R. Columbus '93 is a Crimson staff writer. Eric's mother graduated from
...Luther King Jr., Willy Brandt, Lech Walesa and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Few of those were more calculatedly controversial than this year's Nobel Peace laureate, Rigoberta Menchu. The award to the 33-year-old Guatemalan Indian-rights activist was announced in the week marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World...
...CONTROVERSY HAD RAGED SO long and so intensely before the 500th anniversary of Columbus' discov . . . err, voyage to the New World that the actual day passed almost unnoticed last week. Not so in Latin America, where Native Americans constitute a majority of the population in a few countries and a large minority in others, and where cultural tensions between ( Indians, mixed-bloods and descendants of the conquistadores have long been severe. Two groups of native peoples from nearly opposite ends of the hemisphere -- Alaska and Peru -- met at the Teotihuacan pyramids outside Mexico City at the end of a month...