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...JEREMY GORDIN, biographer of South African President Jacob Zuma, a polygamist, who on Jan. 4 married for the fifth time...
...said: "Once a criminal takes out their gun ... police must then act. We must apply extraordinary measures." His aim, he says, is to create "a system that keeps you on your toes ... to monitor [yourself] vigorously. If there are nonperformers, we'll take them out." Zuma's biographer, Jeremy Gordin, says no one expected Zuma to "hit the ground running, and so hard. He seems to be completely sincere. He wants to deliver...
Zuma, in fact, seems most comfortable at his most African, drawing political lessons from folksy tales of his upbringing and, at rallies, dancing in leopard skins and singing the doggedly politically incorrect Zulu anthem "Bring Me My Machine Gun." As Gordin says, he is "South Africa's first real African President." "I am a Zulu," says Zuma, in an echo of his predecessor's famous "I am an African" speech. "I should not be trying to be an American or more British. I must be a Zulu." (See Jacob Zuma's profile in the 2008 TIME...
Mendelsohn received his nomination from Michael D. Gordin '96, a history and science concentrator he had taught in several classes and whose senior thesis he had advised...
Others awarded prizes were Michael D. Gordin '96 for "'Trust, but Verify': Sverdlovsk, Yellow Rain and the Crisis of Biological Arms Control, 1979-1995"; Marya L. HillPopper '96 for "From Market Building to Institution Building: The Development of Gender Equality Policy in the European Union"; Chimene I. Keitner '96 for "Revamping the Salome Myth: The Femme Fatalle and Sexual Power in Rachilde"; Thaddeus B. Kousser '96 for "'Treating' the Poor"; Alexander G. Kozak '96 for "The Myth of Hypsipyle in Greek and Roman Poetry"; and David B. Lat '96 for "Language and the Land: The Building of Community in Philippine...