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...This recently formed band includes Michael Bernstein (drums), formerly of Corduroy Brown and Fahreinheit; Scott Pagano (bass), formerly of Fahreinheit, JENR8r and Portfolio Seven and currently also a member of Luksuosowa and Polaroid; Barry Moon (guitar), an electronic music professor at Brown, and Rebecca, the lead singer...
...reality of living in a country that has seen such a rapid shift in power. In the most recent of the eight, Disgrace, Coetzee continues this exploration. Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize, Disgrace articulates the same concern as Coetzees 1990 novel Age of Iron, in which a retired Professor of Latins struggle with cancer is symbolic of the waning force of humanism. Until the 90s, humanism was the primary discourse of white opposition to apartheid. But the tenuous hope Coetzee expresses in Age of Iron for the survival of humanism despite the violence of South Africas transitional years...
...narrative is told through David Lurie, a divorced, passionless professor of English Literature whose seduction of one of his colored students precipitates a train of events that leads to him losing his job, his reputation and his lifestyle in Cape Town. Although Coetzee does not overtly mention the proceedings of the TRC, he alludes to them through Luries appearance before a university disciplinary committee. While Lurie is prepared to admit his guilt in abusing his position of authority by coercing the young student into a sexual relationship with him, that is as far as he will go. He refuses...
Marc D. Hauser is Professor of Psychology in the Mind, Brain and Behavior Program...
...vehicle through this committee to bring people together," said Committee Chair Paul Summergrad, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School...