Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...colleague. Aung San Suu Kyi, winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, is in her fourth year of house arrest in Rangoon. "She continues to inspire the people of Burma," said Costa Rica's former President Oscar Arias Sanchez, flanked by Tibet's Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa (standing). Mikhail Gorbachev and Mother Teresa, also Peace Prize recipients, sent messages of support...
...wrought largely by the recession. Zuckerman could not hope to go head to head against the steady New York Times, but he had to be concerned about two other dailies. One was the genteel, struggling New York Newsday, once described by a News editor as "a tabloid in a tutu." The other, to be sure, was the staggering, vulnerable Post. It was the first target...
Another HRAAA nominee, South African Archbishop Desmond L. Tutu, stepped down from his seat on the Board last year, making room for a sixth new member...
...addition to having professors from Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Syracuse, Princeton, the London School of Economics, Oxford, Georgetown and the University of Pittsburgh, among other well-respected universities, Semester at Sea hosts several interport lectures. On my voyage last spring, our lectures were Bishop Tutu (Brazil to South Africa); Liberty Mhlanga (Cape Town to Kenya); Margaret Pusch (Nassau to Brazil) and Maria Ruiz-Merroth (Nassau to Venezuala). They spoke on everything from the farming practices of the Massai in Kenya to third world debt problems, the Gulf of Columbia-Venezuela conflict, apartheid (or Apart-Hate as Desmond Tutu prefers...
Although there were days when even Desmond Tutu was caught sleeping in class, the courses provided students with valuable pre-and post-port medical, travel, historical and cultural information on each country. There were times when the only studying done on ship was on who scored the most points in the volleyball game, but everything we did was balanced (no, there was no shuffleboard...