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...DIED. Edward Said, 67, Columbia University professor, literary critic and prominent advocate for Palestinian independence; in New York City. A fierce critic of Israel and American Middle East policy, the Jerusalem-born author and scholar advocated a single, binational state for "dispossessed" Palestinians. Though he generally repudiated terrorism, he drew ire for his refusal to condemn specific violent acts by Palestinians. Still, the author of Orientalism, which argued that Western writers had demeaned Arabs and Asians with stereotyping, lived most of his life in the U.S., married a Quaker and for a time wrote music reviews for the Nation, acknowledging...
...coffee that afternoon and became inseparable friends. Edward Said did not fit into any single category. He was the very essence of human nature because he understood its contradictions. He was both a fighter and a compassionate defender. A man of logic and passion. An artist and a critic. A visionary of the future with an understanding of tradition. He fought for Palestinian rights while understanding Jewish suffering, and did not see this posture as a paradox. We founded the West-East Divan as a forum where young Israeli and Arab musicians understood that before Beethoven we all stand...
Farmer is an impossibly busy man: an influential medical fundraiser, a sharp critic of U.S. policy towards the developing world and a practicing physician with his feet in what seems like a thousand clinics at once. He splits his time between regular rounds at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the free medical complex he founded in Cange, a rural settlement in the most impoverished part of Haiti...
Carter has emerged as a prominent critic of the 11-nation Proliferation Security Initiative, a U.S.-led effort to intercept North Korean weapons shipments...
Relations between Seoul and Washington have shown increased strain since Roh Moo-Hyun, an outspoken critic of the American invasion of Iraq, was elected president of South Korea in December...