Word: mda
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...horrors of apartheid gave South African writers a focus and an intensity unique in 20th century literature. Not many countries can boast two still-scribbling Nobel prizewinners, J.M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer, as well as a mob of socially conscious contenders like Breyten Breytenbach, André Brink, Zakes Mda and dramatist Athol Fugard. Yet since the fall of the race-based regime and the triumph of democracy more than a decade ago, some South African writers and readers have worried that the thrill is gone, the edge lost, the fire dimmed. Like apartheid itself, those fears can now be swept...
...recently made into a movie starring Juliette Binoche and Samuel L. Jackson. In A Change of Tongue (Random House, South Africa) she explores the many changes during South Africa's first decade of freedom, from food to the way a town's sewage system works. Exciting new writer Zakes Mda also mines South Africa's past for his feisty novel, The Madonna of Excelsior (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a fictionalized account of the arrest in 1971 of 19 small-town citizens for breaking the Immorality Act by having sex across the color line. Like so much in South Africa - past...
...Campus Hillel Ambulance Initiative—nicknamed Project CHAI as the Hebrew word “chai” means “life”—plans to raise $70,000 to buy an ambulance for Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel’s official emergency medical, disaster, ambulance and blood bank service...
...MDA has over 650 emergency ambulances operating 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year, but during the current conflict in the Middle East it must replace ambulances at a rate of 80 per year, according to the leaders of Project CHAI...
...Mike Dewar, a former army officer who heads the London P.R. agency MDA, calls the Masonic campaign "one of the most challenging accounts I've taken on." A challenge indeed. Even today, some 400 years after it originated probably as an English gentleman's club that derived its name, rituals and symbols from the stonemason's craft the mere mention of Freemasonry can inspire fear and suspicion...