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...letter, Mbeki describes his admiration for the central character in his favorite Shakespeare play, Coriolanus, who set out, as he wrote, with "truthfulness, courage, self-sacrifice, absence of self-seeking, brotherliness, heroism, optimism." Mbeki aspired to the same qualities, to be a "person who does good, and does it honestly," he tells Gevisser. But Coriolanus is a tragedy. The hero becomes a vainglorious despot. Mbeki is no Coriolanus, but as his paranoia and isolation reached new heights last year, Zwelinzima Vavi, the general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, warned the country may be "drifting toward dictatorship...
...Mass. Hall spokesman said yesterday that Faust had not read the letter, and declined to comment further...
Gilbert S. Doctorow ’67, the Belgium-based businessman who wrote the letter and is organizing the effort to add signatures to it, said yesterday that the letter was not aimed at undergraduates directly, but at Harvard’s “powers that...
Thirteen members of the Class of 1967 have sent an open letter to University President Drew G. Faust accusing Harvard students of “widespread apathy and political indifference” and asking her to name a task force to investigate ways to increase political engagement...
...letter objects to the “apparently docile political behavior of the undergraduate student body” despite controversies over the preservation of civil liberties and the war in Iraq. It contends that the University is not fostering an environment conducive to “civic courage and political engagement...