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...read "July's People" quite a few years ago, and I recall it as a story of a longtime domestic servant named July who rescues a white family from a kind of racial Armageddon by sheltering them in his own township world. Gordimer is a fine writer, but I'm afraid the committee's description of the book as an "anachronism" is on the mark. July amazes the complacent, well-to-do white family - and by implication the complacent well-to-do white reader - with his kindness, resourcefulness and wisdom. In other words, he's the classic "noble savage...
...Rubin has been a rare public servant, someone who has worked in a quiet, understated, yet supremely effective way to make one of the world's most complicated and important jobs seem almost easy," President Neil L. Rudenstine said...
...Global Agenda, Michael Elliott's new weekly column. Elliott, who lives in New York, is one of the great journalistic talents of our time, having held top jobs at the Economist, Newsweek and, most recently, eCountries. Over the years he has also served as a law professor, a civil servant and a TV documentary filmmaker. The column will focus on the global economy and how it's changing all of our lives. This week's effort starts with news of a recent catamaran circumnavigation and ends up making some insightful observations about the state of world trade. It's classic...
Doula is a Greek word that means "woman servant." Unlike midwives, who deliver babies and are licensed to perform medical tasks, labor doulas provide emotional and physical support to the laboring parents. "I do everything from getting wet cloths for a mother's forehead to relaxation exercises to massage," says Guralnick...
Though he has spent the last eight years as a public servant and policymaker, Lawrence H. Summers is a highly regarded academic and has the all-important Harvard connection--a prior affiliation with the University that helped to make him a more appealing candidate and gave him supporters