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...annual Pritzker Prize--$100,000 plus a gold medal--is by far the most prestigious award in architecture today. It is like the Nobels for literature or for the promotion of peace, though not as hotly debated, there being no architectural equivalent to Dario Fo--still less to Rigoberta Menchu. It is given not for promise but to uphold the ideal of excellence. Twenty men (but no women) have received it since Philip Johnson got the first one in 1979; they range from Mexico's Luis Barragan to Italy's Renzo Piano, from Britain's James Stirling to America...
Professor of Anthropology Kay B. Warren defended Rigoberta Menchu's autobiography as a testimonial of a shared Mayan experience in a speech at the Peabody Museum last night...
...when she was 23, Rigoberta Menchu, a Quiche Mayan, dictated I, Rigoberta Menchu to an anthropologist. Menchu said it was a narrative account of her experience during the Guatemalan civil war. 80,000 civilians died in the 36-year war, which lasted until...
...book, Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans, Stoll questions Menchu's account of her education and the deaths of her family...
...York Times article on Stoll's assertions reported that one brother who dies of starvation in I, Rigoberta Menchu never existed. The article says that Menchu, who claimed to have been uneducated, actually studied for several years in a Catholic school...