Word: nobels
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...Harvard had over $34 million invested in Shell Oil--a world leader in environmental destruction and human rights abuses. Shell Oil's dubious relationship with the military government of Nigeria has led to the importation of arms and paying the military to suppress local civilian opposition, the execution of Nobel peace laureate Ken Saro-wiwa and eight others for speaking out against its oil drilling operations, and environmental destruction which has caused pollution levels in Nigeria 700 times higher than their operations in Europe...
Motivations for students planning to attend the ceremony in Tercentenary Theater vary from personal curiosity to see the Nobel Peace Prize-winner to poignant questions about the future of South Africa they hope to see Mandela address...
This time around, it was a newly-created University initiative--not the promise of a degree--that brought the 1993 Nobel Prize winner to Cambridge today...
Mandela accepts Nobel Peace Prize...
...running through my mind: How can I express the importance of Mandela? My friends camped outside of Tercentenary Theater last night; they not only wanted to see the man from their seats, they wanted to be close enough to smell him. But when all of us see that dignified Nobel Laureate on stage, dressed in Crimson robes and receiving one of the highest honors Harvard awards, and we cheer, do we know what we are cheering...