Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everything from see the start of a coup to hike through the Rancho Grande rainforest in Venezuela; learn the lambada and other Carnival dances in Rio; party with Desmond Tutu, the mayor of Cape Town, South African students and several ANC representatives at the Bishopscourt (Tutu's residence) in Cape Town; witness and anti-Moi riot in Nairobi, Kenya; learn mantras at the Madurai Temple in India; visit biotechnology production plants, rubber plantations and the beach in Malaysia; visit the Hsin-Chu Science Park in Taiwan; tour Guangzhou (Canton) in Southern China with the mayor to several of Southern China...
Larry O'Keefe's shining moment happened in the prologue of a Loeb Mainstage production. "I was once an Earl who induced erotic hallucination by putting his head inside a tutu and drawing the noose around him. And one night there was no stool. So, my manservant realized this, and he first got a stool that was too short, and then one that was too long, and finally he came back with a big black chair that was marked with an "X" and all the time we were cutting and pasting our dialogue...
NORWAY'S NOBEL COMMITTEE HAS never been reluctant to use the immense prestige of its Peace Prize to make a political point. Over the years it has found timely reason to honor such powerful figures as Martin Luther King Jr., Willy Brandt, Lech Walesa and Bishop Desmond Tutu. Few of those were more calculatedly controversial than this year's Nobel Peace laureate, Rigoberta Menchu. The award to the 33-year-old Guatemalan Indian-rights activist was announced in the week marking the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World...
...Tutu was a special petition nominee of the pro-divestment group Harvard Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid when he was elected to the board...
...Desmond Tutu came to Harvard at a time when the institution badly needed his experience and views. We thank him for the contributions he made to University policy. And we hope more like him will be elected to serve...