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When James Mawdsley was 20 years old and tormented by the injustice of the world, he tried to kill himself. Not long after he recovered, his considerable sympathies were captured by the plight of Burma. He decided that he would go there with the purpose of getting the country's ruling military junta to throw him in prison. As a protest, the gambit was somewhat flawed. The junta was happy to jail him, but they kept letting him out. Every time Mawdsley was deported, he would return, like a self-appointed Daniel in the lion...
...would probably ask Rob above anyone else if I had a problem related to adjusting to undergraduate life," says prefectee Jonathan R. Mawdsley...
Both sides were relying heavily on the skill and shrewdness of the five distinguished U.N. envoys. Much care had gone into choosing them: former Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. and U.N. Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, Algerian Chief U.N. Delegate Mohammed Bedjaoui, Syrian Career Diplomat Adib Daoudy, Sri Lankan Lawyer Hector W. ("Harry") Jayawardene, and French Human Rights Activist Louis-Edmond Pettiti...
...Chairman Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, 55, chief counsel for Venezuela's state oil company, is a bon vivant who loves Caribbean music but is also an eloquent spokesman for democracy. Son of a professional diplomat, Aguilar earned a law degree from McGill University in Canada and a doctorate in political science from Venezuela's Central University, where he taught civil law and was law school dean in the 1950s. He suffered a painful lesson in political repression in 1956 when he was imprisoned for opposing General Marcos Péréz Jiménez. After...