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...life of cringing abjection on the outermost margins of the new South Africa. The work was haunted by disillusion and pessimism, and nobody was particularly surprised when Coetzee, now 63, quietly departed for Australia in 2002, leaving some of us asking: Now that Coetzee has left us, is his Nobel really a triumph for the Rainbow Nation, as our newspapers claim...
There's no point looking to Coetzee for clarification. He failed to show up for his Booker award ceremonies, and who knows whether he'll show up in Stockholm on Dec. 10 for his Nobel. The protagonist of his latest novel, Elizabeth Costello, herself a postmodern novelist, might offer some clues as to his thoughts. On being picked for a literary prize, she says, "I should have asked them to forget the ceremony and send the check in the mail...
Many of his followers were disappointed that Pope John Paul II did not receive the Nobel Peace prize last week, but they have the consolation of a special ceremony in St. Peter's Square on Thursday to celebrate his 25 years as Pontiff. John Paul's health has deteriorated so visibly and dramatically over the past four weeks, however, that many wonder how much longer the 83-year-old can continue his gruelling round of travel and public appearances. The presence of the world's Cardinals at the anniversary gathering will prompt speculation about John Paul's successor, and perhaps...
South Africa, with the most HIV positive citizens of any nation, is the undisputed ground-zero of the global AIDS crisis. In 2001, seeking to acquire cheaper generic versions of d4T in order to treat dying South Africans, the Nobel Prize winning organization Doctors Without Borders requested that Yale act in conjunction with BMS to drop its patent protection in the country. But Yale wouldn’t budge; at least not until a group of Yale students began to mobilize around the issue, mounting a stubborn media campaign to shame the university and BMS. Eventually the students prevailed...
...Action Movement (HBAM) President Mamie M. Thant ’04 said that the museum’s sponsorship of the trip suggests that the University condones the behavior of the Burmese government, which she says has committed a host of human rights abuses and prevented the democratically-elected Nobel Prize Winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from taking office...