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...eyes are on our ivory tower, noting everything from our cure-finding medical research to our Nobel Laureates to our president, foot firmly planted in his mouth. At times, the spotlight burns. It’s not easy being simultaneously lauded for academic excellence and derided for academic inflation, for instance. And the media coverage of Harvard isn’t always fair and balanced, even by Fox News’ standards...
Cheer up. In the two years since you wrote your story, our endowment has grown by a 10-digit number. Our faculty members have won Nobel Prizes. Our admissions have become yet more selective, yielding a more diverse and smarter student body. Our administration has made a comparatively Herculean effort to improve social life. Our University President has finally decided to stop living in sin. And you’re still not in New Haven...
...prospect of hanging concentrates the mind, then the 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...
...were bound together, two by two, as if in an impossible combination: they became each other's steptwins. Their negotiations at times resembled nothing so much as the conflict they were trying to resolve. Mandela and De Klerk were at each other's throats even as they accepted the Nobel Peace Prize together. Rabin could barely stand to shake Arafat's hand on the White House lawn. Each of the settlements-in- progress shows that peacemaking is often as difficult and dirty, in its own way, as warmaking. The Men of the Year sometimes seemed to be elaborating a variation...
...four of them at peak, frantically busy moments in their lives; and all four of them in about a week. On Dec. 7, chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger and managing editor Jim Gaines met over dinner in Oslo, where Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk were to receive their Nobel Peace Prizes three days later, and considered the problem. Mandela's people told Johannesburg bureau chief Scott MacLeod that they might be able to give TIME an hour or so early the next morning, but De Klerk could set aside only 20 minutes in Oslo. Not enough. O.K., then...