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Jeffrey Vanke poses in his letter ("Kilson Must Tell Us When It Is Time For Forgiveness," February 21) a searching query which if either Vanke or Martin Kilson could provide an intellectually satisfactory answer to, both of us would warrant the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in science and economics. Jeffrey Vanke's searching query is this: When, following purposely cruel and evil violations of one people's humanity by another people (such as the violation of Blacks' humanity by White American slavocracy and the genocidal violation of Jewish humanity by the 20th century German Nazi state), does the complex...
Burma (also known as Myanmar) has one of the worst human rights records in the world. Although the most prominent dissident, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has been freed, pro-democracy leaders continue to be imprisoned. Forced labor and forced relocations are commonplace; often whole villages are destroyed to make way for new development or the American-sponsored oil pipeline. Extrajudicial executions, torture, rape and forced prostitution are regularly practiced by the armed forces. During one incident last month, 11 villagers were killed, two women were stripped and tortured and three people were arrested...
Lung said the petition, which objects to Harvard's "high-handed" behavior and calls for "equal treatment," had already been signed by a Nobel laureate...
DIED. JOSEPH BRODSKY, 55, exiled Russian poet, 1987 Nobel prizewinner and poet laureate of his adopted U.S.; of a heart attack; in New York City. Brodsky's 1964 Soviet trial for "parasitism," prompted by the underground distribution of his works, made him a cause celebre in the West and led to his expulsion in 1972. His intense verses, filled with images of loss and wandering, won him wide acclaim and America's highest honor for poetry...
Russell's despairing tone is frequently echoed by contemporary thinkers. Thus the French Nobel-prizewinning biologist Jacques Monod writes, "Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he has emerged only by chance...