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...Redefining What Makes Us Female (just published by Bantam) and anthropologist Helen Fisher's The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Will Change the World (due from Random House in May). But it's Angier, who has already won a solid reputation (and a Pulitzer Prize) at her day job, who most decisively lifts the concept of the human female out of its traditional oxymoronic status. You gotta love a self-described "female chauvinist sow" who writes like Walt Whitman crossed with Erma Bombeck and depicts the vagina as a "Rorschach with legs." Woman: An Intimate...
...Rigoberta Menchu Nobel Laureate and Marxist terrorist now exposed as an intellectual hoax," the advertisement reads. "This fraud was originally perpetrated and is still defended by your professors and by the Nobel Prize Committee...
Menchu, a Quiche Mayan, won the Nobel peace Prize in 1992 after this auto-biographical work was published, which details the terrors perpetrated against her family during the Guatemalan insurrection. But since the prize was awarded, the book's authorship and the truth of its accounts have been called into question...
Menchu's Nobel Prize was never revoked. She still stands by the truth of her account, blaming any problems on Elisabeth Burgos, the Venezuelan anthropologist who transcribed interviews with Menchu and actually wrote the book...
...Rigoberta Menchu Nobel Laureate and Marxist terrorist now exposed as an intellectual hoax," the advertisement reads. "This fraud was originally perpetrated and is still defended by your professors and by the Nobel Prize Committee...